Haiti is a mess and it is different than America only in degree, not kind.

 My guess is that if we knew enough about the situation, we would find American officials involved in the Haitian backstory.  I doubt that they would have been in support of the gangs that are currently tearing the country apart, rather I would expect them to have been on the side of law and order and engaged in finding some way to prop up "the government."  It does look as though we have been a principal supporter of the effort to get Kenyan police into the country to restore order in the street, and we are obviously in the forefront of "diplomatic efforts" to restore harmony in the government, but nowhere would I expect to find the kind of effort necessary to change the political trajectory in that unfortunate country, and the fundamental reason is that the American people don't give a damn, particularly since we have even bigger problems in Ukraine, Gaza, and soon in Taiwan.  Who the hell has time to think about Haiti?  Or Sudan?  Or Burkina Faso?  Or....?  We have to settle on the proper age that it is suitable to snuff the fetus, get the price of gasoline down, put more potato chips in the bag, teach people how to use pronouns correctly, and, most important of all, get people to respect our feelings.

According to Google, 11.45 million people live in Haiti.  Again according to Google, "on the UN's Human Development Index, Haiti ranked 170 out of 189 countries in 2020."  That means that, in the entire world, there are 19 countries that are poorer than this close neighbor of ours.  I know of no poor country or community in the entire world that is able to sustain a politically stable society, let alone properly care for its' citizens.  Poverty results in political instability - always.  Here in this country, just exactly for the same reason as in Haiti, and you and I refuse to face up to that fundamental fact.

OK, what do we do about it?  The first thing we have to do is to restore order and that means using force to combat illegal activity.  In Haiti that means putting the gangs down.  In Chicago it means putting the gangs down.  The next thing that we have to do in Haiti is make life worth living for the vast majority of people.  In Chicago it means making life worth living for the vast majority of people.  We actually know what needs to be done, but we refuse to do it for all manner of reasons, all of which boil down to the fact that we are not frightened enough to do the necessary, we have our own lives to live, and besides, it all costs way too much money.  Always before in human history that was good enough.  Eventually we would have a fight and then, after we had killed enough people, we would pick our lives back up, and get on with the effort to put more chips in the bag.  Then Oppenheimer went and invented the atom bomb, Barack and Joe gave the Ayatollah permission to build theirs, and we decided that we could not address any of these issues until we decided whether we were boys or girls.

Remember to vote!  We have a democracy to protect.  That other guy has to be defeated even if the idiot that we are voting for is no better - remember he is different.  We have another flip flop to get done.  Our democracy depends on it and we are, after all, the leader of the Free World!