Tourists and locals were converging on the site where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke and where protesters denounced the Vietnam War, just to catch a glimpse of the wayward sealant—or perhaps even a souvenir.
“Taking a piece of paint is like taking a piece of the Berlin Wall,” one cyclist passing by told me. “It’s a piece of history.”
If this doesn’t perfectly symbolize the incompetence of American politics now, I don̈́t know what else can. 🤡🤡🤡
The American empire is falling apart, because of political incompetence, just like this pool did.
The pool may get fixed, USA as a whole is another story.