I was driving home last night and I saw a homeless dude asleep under a bridge and not even doing a good job of getting cash for himself.
KC and other downtown interests have declared war on these folks and hired a few menial laborers to occupy the prime begging spots during the day but there's no way they could ever run all of the homeless off at night.
Looking at this poor guy asleep on the street I almost felt bad for taking his image which is probably the only thing he has left.
Thinking about his predicament, how someone fell through the cracks in KC and is pretty much hopeless, inspired a strange bit of hatred for Kansas City politicos and all variety of careerists who claim an interest in this town. Looking at this dude on the street I realize that KC's chattering classes don't talk to these people because there's nothing to be gained from a conversation.
Watching the guy for just a few seconds made me realize that pretty much every politico in this town, especially the Mayor, is worthless and they're only involved in this community for their own benefit.
Did you know the "paper of record" hasn't had a poverty reporter for years?
Murders on the Eastside aren't mourned, they're simply counted . . . And homeless people in KC are regarded as nothing more than a "visual blight" problem with little concern for their well-being.
Political correctness, special interests and general apathy by the voting public have created a crop of some of the worst Kansas City politicos in a more than a generation . . . Really, I was thinking that most local elected officials aren't even worthy of scorn . . . They're mostly just a disappointment.
Who knows, maybe a few politicos in this town start out with a genuine interest in representing their constituents or (God forbid) helping the less fortunate without a clear reward . . . But in the long run so many in this town find themselves powerless to do anything but help themselves and after awhile that becomes their priority. For just a second last night I realized that most (if not all) of Kansas City's powerful and elite are some of the most self-serving and despicable people in this town and their meaningless rhetoric is a cruel joke played on the rest of the populace left to fend for themselves or die in the street.