ryanreynolds on Nostr: I drove around Springfield, Illinois, and the surrounding small towns today, for ...

I drove around Springfield, Illinois, and the surrounding small towns today, for work.

These are the places we should all hope tariffs - or more importantly the resulting negotiations from them - help bring back to life.

I saw lots of long shuttered industry, urban neighborhoods all but abandoned, small towns literally rotting and falling down.

The core has some bauble shops and nice restaurants, catering to the top 20-25%, but for the rest it is a liquor store, a gambling parlor, a Dollar General, and a Caseys.