I am not shy when it comes to mentioning that out of my family (all Venezuelans), I am the only one that didn't fall for the alt-right Trump pipeline. I mean, very briefly in 2008-2011, I was a libertarian/ancap before that was a mainstream and quit when I found that the AnCap meet ups I was seeing online looked like white supremacist gatherings. Then Bernie came along, and I agreed with him, and I had to investigate Venezuelan socialism to square it away with my internalized opposition. So I did read Capital. I also read the UN and Treasury website on Venezuelan sanctions and realized why Venezuela is having such a difficult time. My brother, who was a Bernie-bro in 2016 has fallen with the alt-right. I cannot overstate how Hillary Clinton, the DNC, and pied piper strategy to run against Donald Trump has devastated the minds of Americans.
He was a Bernie bro, when Bernie got ratfucked. My brother also fell on hard times, he turned increasingly pessimistic and exacerbated his mental illness. His mishandled OCD – his therapist was terrible– led him to stay home and listen to more extreme right-wing content, he was struggling to pay off his student loans (which Joe Biden never canceled/pardoned). And he is now a libertarian/AnCap, Peter Schiff type, a silverbug, an absolute MAGA cretin and evangelical christian weirdo (we are Catholic). And because he is still struggling to find a decent job, applying to CBP.
I found this out recently when my mom called to ask for information, "because your brother is applying to join a federal government agency" and I told them I wouldn't not give them anything, they didn't already know. Come to find out he has taken a fitness test and will join the CBP.
This shit sucks man.
I work in a prison (education, don't worry comrades) and the qualifications needed for being a guard are:
Being an alcoholic helps get your foot in the door, but is not required.
There are essentially zero other decent jobs in the area. Fast food, dollar general, mom and pop pharmacies. Its sad to see so many people that are otherwise decent human beings taking the job because they need to eat.
Good on you for helping those behind bars. And yeah I can back this up because I was in rehab and one of the workers left to get a job in corrections and he had a terrible record and was pretty dumb.
Most of the prisons around here are extremely understaffed, so while they aren't exactly offering a million dollar salary, it is one of the easiest jobs you can get with basically no investment, experience, degree, etc. Government pay and benefits sounds like a sweet deal in bumfuck nowhere