ALSO fail to recognize that things in that regard have gotten WORSE in my 40ish years living in this country.
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You are living in a fantasy world. I am sorry.
When I was a kid, it was on TV cops literally just beating up suspects (on "Cops", not like fiction, but really just beating the fuck out of real people with batons because they tried to run away). On prime time. No one thought it was at all weird. When Rodney King happened, it was super confusing even the idea the the cops might be guilty of a crime. They got found not guilty on the first trial.
To say that from that, to bodycams and defund the police and murder charges for cops who kill suspects, is things getting "WORSE" just means you are literally just stating whatever, with no connection to reality. It's like saying global warming has gotten better since the 80s. It's like saying wealth inequality has gone down. It is literally backwards from what's happened to an absolutely crazypants level.
Plenty of things still need to change. It's not like me saying I think things have reached this significantly better level means it doesn't ruin people's lives every day. Sure, let's fuckin fix it. But you can't just come at a complex problem with this type of lego block understanding of what's going on and twist the whole world around to match your prejudices and expect anything good to come out of that.