To make things worse, a criminal record:
➡️ Destroys wealth
➡️ Creates debt
➡️ Initiates or perpetuates cycles of homelessness
➡️ Decimates job opportunities

If you read most U.S. journalism, the fact that most of our sectors (guns, energy, telecom, healthcare, whatever) has been completely broken by corruption and unchecked corporate power just..isn't mentioned.

It's as if editors think being honest about this is inherently biased or impolite.

it is similar to the trick conservatives are trying to pull with the birthright citizenship clause. take something whose meaning is absolutely clear from just a plain reading of the text and transmogrify it into something that says its opposite through obfuscation and esoterica