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@mekkaokereke Something utterly appalling about America that I learnt in the past week.

Yes, it's a tangent, but it has everything to do with your core point.

Many of the firefighters that have been battling the bushfires in Los Angeles these past few days are prison inmates: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rwdjwglx2o

"Nearly 1,000 incarcerated men and women have joined the frontlines in a battle against record-breaking wildfires burning across southern California.

"The number deployed - now 939 - are part of a long-running volunteer programme led by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).

"The state pays inmates a daily wage between $5.80 and $10.24 (£4.75 and £8.38), and an additional $1 per day when assigned to active emergencies."

In the richest country on Earth, making inmates put their lives at risk fighting bushfires for US$5.80 an hour + US$1 a day?!

Genuine question: How do you allow that to happen?!

And in the supposedly liberal state of California!

As a foreigner, with all the crazy stuff that's happened in America recently, that managed to shock me.

In good conscience, how do you allow your nation's prison–industrial complex to get that bad?

And that's just one manifestation of it!

Any Democrat who calls themselves a "liberal" and enables it should hang their head in shame.