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I feel completely destroyed I didn't think we would go through with this now there's a lot of uncertainty it's a shock we're all in the deep end better the devil you know him so you don't carry on it feels like the end of the world it feels pretty bad it's the ramifications of This doesn't seem like a plan for what we're going to do now you don't know what to do because everyone's arguing a little bit I think humans do I'm still stupid and ego gets in the way. I think some things are true about England other than that.

I know I can always find friends there. It is where you can find some of the best restaurants in Europe. It's lovely. Don't know. They are sophisticated. They are old, they have existed but on this last trip the atmosphere in London unexpectedly became darker, more uncertain about the future, the British spoke last night, a small wake-up call. It turns out that it was about immigration that more than half of Britain's immigration comes from outside the eu the young people are very angry about what happened in the game that has been done with their few in the future anyway they went to sleep thinking that england would leave the european union that was for idiots the people in the sticks the country people the old white people who felt expelled neglected disenfranchised by the new the young the foreigners the decidedly less white england of today the votes were counted and the majority had decided to brexit england the ramifications were unclear but the financial markets plummeted the nation's credit rating was downgraded the prime minister resigned and the leadership of both political parties basically disintegrated overnight in uncertain times I always look for the comforting and the familiar the things that have always made England great for me as one of my favorite restaurants on earth and one of the chefs that I like and respect the most, this restaurant helped present a persuasive argument of that British cuisine has some kind of merit.

It is absolutely true. Fergus Henderson, the most influential chef of the last two decades, although you've probably never heard of him, changed everything. It seems instinctive. cooking simple and proud old school

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country cuisine but it started a quiet revolution st john i love you and i need you now more than ever it's about the one ingredient on the plate speaking for itself in that classic italian way and that's why you might miss roasted bone marrow with parsley and caper salad sourdough bread made here a dish that would become absolutely iconic if you've ever had bone marrow anywhere it's most likely because they made it here first my dining companion is the reviewer gastronomic and author jay raynor a man never lacks opinions thank you if you go out and there you have it it's something simple good but it's one of the most influential dishes like in the last 20 years that's good you can see his mark everywhere it's true the interesting thing It's aesthetics conveyed in other ways that you don't expect, yes, as I've gotten older, I've realized that the

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that I react to in a completely emotional way, the problem is that it's very, very rare, I'm looking for a suspension of logic and reason, this is something I got here from the beginning, pickled beef tripe with radish, shaved carrot and watercress, lovely, thank you, there are some dishes that are just wonderful, it's a tricky ingredient . once you are cooking it smells like a wet dog the way we smell and taste things is very different all the best foods stink yes and it is something extraordinary these foods have a faint smell of death they are the ones that remind you that you are the most alive the aroma of your own mortality your own mortality skate poached at court all with fennel and green sauce of fresh parsley herbs and anchovies that's nice say retreat full of kidneys oh yes, they are so pretty and what are these kidneys like? done sir, well season well and then the sauce sizzling chicken broth butter thank you well wow it's good thank you pig's head and potato pie the brined head is simmered until tender, the bone is removed and seasoned and then it is baked in dough with potatoes yes please traditional dish that exemplifies everything I believe in wow how nice thank you sir thank you okay oh look at that new working toy is this a cupcake Hot water?

He says the puff pastry somehow transfers the fats from the pig's head to the outside and the butter makes itself. the crust is really beautiful, oh my goodness, look at this pine tree, it's almost like something out of a children's book, right, the tradition of the pie is something very, very special if you go back in history to the Hogarths painting the roast beef Of old England, yes. You'll notice that we were actually far ahead of the French in meat preparation and roasting meats, much of it was on our side of the channel, yes, which is no reason to leave the European Union, That's why they call it Great Britain, which is great. about Britain I can refer to a certain literacy and a wry sense of humor and a political tradition of democracy that, ironically, the referendum that has caused us so much pain is a perfect example of a strangely consistent welcoming environment in which the history of immigration the country has challenged a much more open culture up to this point I was very, very proud of not being here, you know, my great-great-grandparents came to the Jewish stables from the ship to the east end of London and I'm still here to this day and That is something very, very important.

A very tolerant country. This is a very traumatic moment. Will everything turn out well in the end? I have no idea what the only truth is. Nothing is safe. You know how much I like a good pub. like princess victoria in west london and stuff like this do you like pig stripes do i? Oh, that's incredibly cool maybe you wouldn't think that legendary cookbook author Nigella Lawson and I could be friends, but we are, I admit we're very different, she's her. the very definition of goodness elegance grace the woman who taught England to cook this what do you normally get here scotch egg okay scotch eggs please some white bait and some crisps white bait this is the best thing that ever really existed no white beard is so good small pub and get white paint well, I wouldn't show it I can't hear you because of the crisis I call myself for the contract I'm going to go I lost interest in what he was saying white bait small lightly battered herring whole and fried, mixed with a little lemon juice and salt, some perfect bar food, do you have something to say?

You're starting to see them, but they're rarely beautiful, are they? And greasy fries are always important, what's the appropriate seasoning? Since French fries are something old-fashioned, I think vinegar and salt mm-hmm, if I'm in Brussels or in Holland, I'm fine with mayonnaise, yes, I'm with you there, yes, and what are French fries with sauce curry? um, it's really a No matter how many Guinnesses you've had a soft-boiled egg, wrap it in minced pork, then roll it in breadcrumbs and fry it, it's like a supernova of unhealthiness and deliciousness, this is the important thing, the softness of the yellow , who? invented this is just diabolical one of the explanations he used whiskey to preserve the eggs and send them to England what would happen is they would apply some kind of lime on them and it would discolor them so then they covered them to hide that this is Just when I grew up, the rent was very low, but very cheap, pretty creepy sausage meat, rock hard egg, with a tinge like you know your Uranus, okay Uranus, as they prefer to call it now because they get embarrassed and then fry in those. cheap red breadcrumbs and then they rehabilitated it very good eggs very good pork all your basic food groups taste very good very good salt and fat nothing better oh yes this is good this is good strangely calm it's an argument from England , really, yes, you have a good pub yes, if you're going to have a pie, this is the perfect time, it's quiet, we can pretend that all is well in the universe.

I'm going to pretend it's England, as the anti-Brexit forces discovered to their dismay. In London it is different and a lot of it is very very beautiful as we get older we start to look back on our life and reflect when we are young we only look forward we don't think about our past our past has so much little value I am of an age now we have become nostalgic we have become philosophical one can if a successful gentleman with many achievements, for example, with a little money to spend, do as emerson advised his own world away from the madness where in north wiltshire and there is a bathroom in the distance it's really beautiful oh yeah nice view you'll see how it just goes away so it's about five miles as the crow flies there are some chefs who set the chef world on fire like marco pierre whites as young cooks watching their incredible rise from a child from working class to the youngest three Michelin star chef in the world, we were inspired not only by his achievements and his food, which was incredible, no great chef had ever looked like him before or spoken of.

Like him, we weren't, it seemed lonely, I want to make Rudlow a house not a hotel, so when you walk in, it's personal, once obsessed with nothing but work harder, be the best longer, Marco He has transferred his obsessive nature to the most pleasurable task. to make the Rudlow Arms your perfect place, the important thing about a restaurant is that I don't feel like you can go to the best restaurant in the world tomorrow, you can serve the best food, but if you don't feel comfortable in that environment, you will never enjoy it inside it is both a project and the land, every detail so you can be yourself number one atmosphere number two service number three food a roast beef fillet with snails whoa it's beautiful who do you want to come here? people want to have fun I like a mixed demographic I want a bit of everyone I'm not just going to one market the food has to be affordable very, very good Has your food always reflected your aspirations and dreams rather than your background?

I was born and raised on the outskirts of Leeds, in a project housing estate, although I was born in a very humble place, I used to cross my street, walk on the golf course and there I was on the Hayward estate designed by the great Brown, Harwood Hill Manor House. that was my playground I was fascinated by the countryside I loved the rivers the streams the fields the forests what was inside them that's what captured me it was a dream that was my escapism my mother died when I was six mother nature She became my surrogate mother and that's why I have this incredible love affair with nature, but look, once you go to a fancy restaurant you're as far away from nature as possible, I mean, it's hard to rise through the ranks of a good fine. dining in a restaurant, particularly in the era in which you emerged, was not easy.

Everyone in the kitchen where I started came from a housing project. They were working class. They were tough. They were hard, very difficult. The other side of that coin was nature, they were all of those. beautiful ingredients what a beautiful contradiction come see my family little pigs come on little pig little pig little pigs holy shit come on little pigs little pigs they look very well cared for how beautiful that's it that's jeans not food they give you love bites trust me biggies what do you think of all our friends ? from the United States, yes, I would raise a pig.

These are sandy, black Oxfords. They are a traditional Wiltshire pig at four months. That's how big they are. Wow, they remember your voice and your smell. They are very, very affectionate. A forest that lives naturally. beautiful almost self-sufficient here we will be for the bacon goodbye pigs boogies boogies I have never been happier here I found a place I am very happy the legendary classic on Marco's original menu in the past pork straw a lapierre kaufman a tribute to another great chef and mentor It's perfection oh my gosh, that's beautiful when I was a young cook we would look at pictures of this dish, my comrades and colleagues, and we would gape at it in amazement, first we would say oh my gosh, that's beautiful and how did he do it? make it, it has all the textures that all the great kitchens in the world understand like wow, pork strut has 24 bends so you have to remove all those bones and then slow cook it for four hours, right, it's very simple, the people think it's more.

Complicated than it is No, this is a complicated, complicated dish, the hero of the dish really is the skin, yes, it's just one of those great creations, since the French say that we never grow old around the table, they also say that only the first bottle is expensive so this is my big project I'm working on because I fell in love with this little part of England. I started to graze. I guess I'm retired and I like doing what I do here if I look at how much nature we have. What we have here now since we did what we have done is enormous compared to what we had good and I like to see the increase in some birds, the chickens with their chicks, the geese, they are fabulous, aren't they incredible?

They're crazy, they're wonderfully, wonderfully crazy, there are no guarantees how long we'll be here,just enjoy life, the mood in London is like a collective nervous breakdown, drinking seems appropriate, but first a proper base must be established, some food, okay, you have salted fish. Callaloo, sure, I'll have some of that and then veggie burger, salt fish, I think I'll have one of those and the mountain would be fine. What happens when I leave the tour directly here? My face passes half a Guinness and then the night. It's good, you know, Jamie Hintz is half of the creative alliance that makes up the band The Kills, you might know them from shows like this and this Peppers and Spice in.islington is his favorite Caribbean food joint.

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your currency lately. It has suddenly become very affordable. It was yesterday. I know you know we have a long history of taking back control of that country. You know, get back in the driver's seat and then we get in there and we release the handbrake and that's it, you know, thank you very much, I'm very hungry, I'm very excited about this, yeah, everything's fine, the best Jamaican in This side of our car, damn, how tasty, I spent so much. A lot of hanging out with people where you just eat really fancy gourmet food. When I come on tour, I start salivating when I'm on Essex Road.

It's a shame they don't have a bar here, although of course you have to drink a lot, don. Don't know? It's my job too. People don't think about that. You know how much faster I have to drink just to do this. I mean, you should be more sensitive to that. They should be. It has been one. of the most unpleasant campaigns so many lies so much dissimulation catastrophe so far the reaction has been chaos so yesterday anyway the prime minister resigned yes England left the European union honestly it makes me feel like I no longer believe in democracy how quickly found is reacting to political news entering a very dark and dangerous political period where things are decided by the people they were talking about, just having a damn central government in Brussels, we have nothing in common with the people of Romania in Bulgaria, so I have Anything that calls people from Sunderland or Wales, you know, so they don't have anything coming from people from London.

One of some elderly people in Great Yarmouth. Make them decide the budget and give like foreign policy. Make the people of Sunderland decide London. It's very different from the rest of the country because it's richer for a star, it's much more cosmopolitan, I mean, people complain about that all the time, between the people who are struggling and the people who are doing well, really. sheds light on how The country is divided because people don't just see it as a financial issue, it's a culturalism issue. Citizens who have lived here for 10 to 15 years for the first time have been victims of racial abuse.

British drinking patterns seem to be driven by the fact that pubs close at midnight, yes I noticed as we got closer to last call people start to get confused, the drinking starts to speed up in a load of crazy panic, since many of you think that if you extended the drinking hours that it would improve the behavior or make it worse. I mean, let's face it, your compatriots have a bad reputation when it comes to drinking sensibly, yes, drinking sensibly, do you think that's a function of whatever you know when you were 14 15? Fiera Logan was featured in Rolling Stone and I think the artwork was the first thing she talked about. for me in a really transformative way and it perfectly captures all my anger, all the absurdity, all these things that I didn't think anyone else was seeing or responding to in the same way, it was like nothing I had ever seen artist author icon ralph stedman continued Making art every day he was the visual expression of the best works of Dr.

What do you like? She was majestic, please, oh okay, Martin, could you make the perspective have a double? Well, these optics, you know, they don't have anything, updated chick clips, eyes, yeah, so he did it twice, put it in front of Hunter and look at that, he said what's our sample, oh God, where are you from originally? Well, I'm Welsh, my mother's, she was Gweny Rodgers from Rosh Hannah. Don't ask me to spell that, no, I can't even do it myself. How English do you feel given that you grew up in Wales? Well, one way you know it was, not far from Liverpool, the food is pub fair, a runny egg wrapped in Parma ham and breadcrumbs, prawn cocktail for the man, I think it was Scanlon's article. the first time you worked with Hunter Thompson Kentucky Derby uh yeah um I mean, before that you would say you were a respectable figure who made a living doing your job, I mean, because you transformed very quickly into a countercultural figure, I think very much. people will know it properly or not he was an outlaw artist but I didn't start out wanting to be an artist I want to be an aeronautical engineer I didn't like factory life but I had to go every week to do technical drawing and that's where The Alliance and the circus started well.

I've been writing a critical creature book with BC mockery and insensitive Kerry Levy observations. He's writing about that joint lice thing. Yeah, I don't know if they exist, but I'm pretty sure they do. What I'm pretty sure they actually do is some kind of there are definitely wandering bugs I've found, they warn me that I'm obsessed with things that have to do with lab humor, but that's kind of an English thing, TRUE? I saw an adverb, you too can learn to draw and gain pounds. I took the course while doing service mention. I was drawing the bullet boys, playing cards, blankets on the bed, boots and the bed.

Very simplistic stuff, however, got me started. I've heard of an echidna, I haven't, this is a type of hedgehog type creature, there aren't many of these left, you know, they reach critical stages and this is also happening because, excuse me, we are collecting endangered species that we all we can learn to do this first not like this but this is very difficult I don't think I can do that I'm sure I can my basic motor skills aren't that good oh geez, more old school in the mains fish and chips and mushy peas, steak and stilton pie for me, because any mystery meat wrapped in puff pastry in a pub is pure crack to me, thank you very much, oh you've got the pie, wow, yes, hmm, we don't do this in America, very much people have done it.

He told me: first you write it with a pencil. I said no, just start drawing, but don't make a mistake. I said there are no errors. A mistake is an opportunity to do something else. You have to let nature take it. its course, oh my God, now it's not so beautiful, I mean, I like it, I'm impressing myself, it's so good what nature is impressing me actually, but it's so wonderful how it works, it's kind of natural process of evolution, isn't it? We're doing it all the time, certainly his description of politicians from the beginning seemed deservedly full of rage and disgust.

I think there were some epic performances of Nixon. Was Nixon is Godzilla? Yeah, it was a big deal, I mean, I've done it like a Flying Nixon, a Vampire Nixon, did you ever get an official reaction from the White House to your work? Never, I'm not a giant Godzilla, you don't want to deny that, no, it's funny, how was Boris Johnson, I think his hair in this case. It's just that it's an irresistible urge, well, to do it, I have to come out with that more perfectly, Boris is our trump, well, both of them is a supernova of incredibly bad hair, yes, I mean the two of them together, what's going on, what is happening. in this country it's going to be okay not for the moment no, it doesn't say anything about the country as a whole, so I think yes, maybe there's been a secret desire to really say, wait a minute, what would it be like to be In the big ones? british isles again I was doing this last week just because I can't stand snakes so I said, "Okay, I'll make you one." I made a snake last week.

I decided to make this racist Saint Lucia snake. Like this and then. The next day we had the referendum on Friday morning when people realized what had happened, it was a terrible sadness, as I said, we all felt it, this desire to restore England to its former glory as the British Isles, It has certainly revived a very powerful push in Scotland to reconsider whether they want to be a part of, my goodness, I think things are only going to get worse before they get better and I'm sure what we're experiencing at the moment is a pretty big sort of hangover from something we have yet to accept and get over.

Do you think some of your things are anger or exasperation? I think look, I told him I don't know 50 years ago that I wanted to change the world and I think 50 years later. I made it, it's worse now than when I started, so I changed it, it's kind of emerging, you know, it comes, I mean this guy, he demands a firm man, he really was, that's what he was born to do, you tried to lighten it up a little bit. sea ​​the sea where a man could forget his problems and the problems of the world commune with something infinitely larger and more powerful than himself where he could find himself trapped in an epic struggle with a creature of the sea that plumbs the depths in search of the most primordial from needs food let's hope we hit them quick hello oh my god that's the cornhole look oh my god oh my god no corman janet oh my god he got the bait rip and devour the food we need to survive that's why god in his wisdom It gave us legs to run around the front of our heads to search for prey, nails and thumbs with which to tear through the teeth of our victims to crush flesh and bone between our powerful jaws here in the seaside town of Weymouth in Marlborough is where I'll be crushing haddock fried between my damn jaws with something called a slice of white bread and butter so we can make a butty chip do you like a puffy chip?

I don't know if I've ever eaten one. I've heard of them delicious, okay you're an easy man please, the chef suggests mushy peas with butter and cream. I have very fond memories of Weymouth. My kids went to school right down the street. I used to take them to the marble. lunch and that, and they weren't big fans of fish and chips because they were 13 or 14 and preferred meat to fish and chips, but in my opinion this is the best restaurant in Weymouth. Thank you thank you thank you. He is very friendly. let's put the mushy peas in the middle here we go, look this is how we do it in yorkshire, a little sample of mushy peas without vinegar, they're good now, put the vinegar in, oh my goodness, working class, as I say in yorkshire hmm?

Do you like the video, it transforms everything in a completely different way? I love buttering my bread. Now this is the best. I can't believe you've never had a cheap friend. Well, today is the day I was a child. This was one of. My favorites, the only fish I ate as a child, was fried haddock. I didn't eat any fish and then the vinegar was quite generous and then the salt, and this is what they call chip putty in Yorkshire, where I come from. I like cheap bread because the bread takes on the same texture as the potato, right, that's why it's perfect if you have fancy bread or crusty bread, right, it's not the same, what's your habit like?

Well it's proper working class food - fish and chips, you know when I was a kid we had them twice a week, they cooked fish and chips in beef fat not oil, it makes a huge difference in the taste, pretty good, you were hungry, we worked hard to stay warm, it's big, it's too big, look, I'm. down on my bike yeah me too that's my problem I go for the chip butty before the fish it's the child inside me hidden safely behind the walls of an old Victorian era school isolated from the stupid hell burning outside it's La cantina rochelle a green idol the an unassuming creation of margot henderson and her business partner melanie arnold how long have you been operating here? 10 years 10 years I can't believe I know what's wrong with me Were you a chef before Fergus Yes, yes, well, I started cooking in restaurants when I was 12.

Yes, but this is Fergus peat in his pods. We met when he was working at the Eagle and I immediately told him we should open a restaurant together and he said, "Well, that's a good idea, but let's be lovers too." which I always thought was pretty cool and then we had a restaurant, the whole area has changed into wonderful guys from Shoreditch, little motorbikes, handlebars, what the neighborhood was like before, quite a big Bengali community before that, it was a community pretty strong jew, but then moved on to the next group, moved away, it's a poor area, a lot of people work in the clothing industries, the bandstand in the middle is all rubble from the war, I think the gardeners still find shoes for children and things like that.

It is a very interesting area. how beautiful these blocks are, there is a lot of construction going on at the moment and everywhere in London, the whole city seems to be transforming. It is certainly expensive. My daughter will move because of what happened today, but neither will the EU. she lives in scotland or new zealand and she is soashamed and embarrassed to be English it's the end of the world it feels like now it feels like the end of the world we're separated we're a mean little island saying when the going gets tough it's hard we want to go out and just look after ourselves it's so selfish and disgusting, it's also outside London, there are a lot of people who are really struggling and have lost their way and don't believe in what the government has done, so I don't.

I don't blame the people either, but they have been fed lies. I'd say he's very depressed anyway. We must change the subject. Vitello tomato. Thinly sliced ​​cold roast beef covered with a creamy tuna and caper sauce. Oh, this looks good. Well, then, what's going well? I mean, it's a bad day, even though there are a lot of great restaurants opening in the city. London and the UK in general have gotten better every year, haven't they? It's so exciting, the great chefs were the people who voted. It is a feeling of people who feel interested that they have been screwed, I mean the unemployment of young people in the north.

It is very true that people do not have jobs, but I mean that everyone is looking for chefs. We should be creating great new cookery schools in Britain. I mean, no one can get enough decent chefs. A little more encouragement. I mean there's work to be done but it's how you find it and where do you come from lamb chops with lentils and green sauce so good where does this little lamb from Wales come from the world hits people who dine out now want simpler food and more simple with less or you? I think it's the other way around, simple, but with a kind of twist, I have a story about where it comes from.

It's very interesting. You know, everyone is coming up with new dishes. Should I buy dogs now with what I did keep? thinking what we would all do now if I were a cruelly cynical exploiter everyone would be working out what I would do what I would be doing are you selling if you were buying? yes, I am not well, look at me, master of high finance, you I got so well, thank you, you are making me feel much better with this food and wine, I have to say that your company has made me feel much better about the world than with myself.

Can you reinvent yourself in England or London because it's uh? I mean, maybe you can, I'm sure you can, but people are obsessed with class here, they're still realists, yes, absolutely, it's our measure of authenticity, so people are always trying to get people, These are tough, you know what a top is, an aristocrat, yes, of course, friend. Adrian wrote a book called The Angry Isle and he talks about how the British are famous for being polite and apologizing a lot, but that actually masks deep anger. Do you think there is any truth to that? Well, I think because I've been spending a lot of time in California, and you know it's just when you come to London, if you come to London for a month, you won't make any friends and you probably won't find anywhere to go, but after that, the best people you've ever met in your life?

When I went to Los Angeles that first month, it was so popular that everyone was. I started with six bands and then nothing came of it. There is a kind of real first impression. He's not going anywhere in London. It's just getting down to business and dealing with it well, look, here we go, we get something amazing. The news is sinking the markets. They're giving a brutal reaction when the world seems to be spinning out of control and the inside of your skull feels like it's being gnawed at. by angry gluttons has risen to a completely different UK and a completely different EU when you wake up still sipping tequila feeling shame fear and regret in equal measures it's good to have a friend Europe, Britain's weakest, is divided?

Where do we go now? Who without judging gives you a shoulder to cry on and maybe something simple and good like some eggs and sympathy. I have a wild, horrible hangover. Sorry, unlike you, he was feeling shame, regret, and mourning. You are not the only one. What's happening. Okay, I'm going to do it. I give you some eggs in purgatory Why purgatory? Because they are in chili sauce with tomatoes. Special hangover cure. I know you need it. Yes, do you know the delicacy of fried slice? Oh no, the English delicacy that's like British bruschetta. You have fried plastic. bread mm-hmm I have some really good beef dripping oh some kind of magic pure fat that's what I need right now yeah I think that's how everyone felt a little after the referendum I also think there's something very strange about you because you look normal um, but it's all happening inside, yeah, you have a slight pleading look in your eyes, okay, the whole point of this is that the plastic bread absorbs all the grease, so when you eat it, it bursts with fat in your mouth, it's that good.

I like the noise, okay, I'll give it to you, it might still be a little runny, but it's like Ronnie, I need money today. Okay, try a little dry first to get the facts into your mouth. There is light and hope. the universe again, thanks, that's what I aim to provide runny, spicy eggs and fat just what I needed hmm, that's nice, I have something absorbent, you know, that thing the Simpsons want when they want to gain weight so they don't have to go to he works yes and then he allows himself to eat things that when you rub them on something it makes it look through your window to gain weight yes sure, just make this twist look now if you want, I can see myself in about six months.

I am very pleased that we can be a corrupting influence, that is something we can be proud of. These are scary times for many, the world is changing and there is no way to stop those changes, but in such times there are always two ways to run and hide build walls cower in fear and suspicion pointing fingers at our neighbors seems like they do the people desperate and scared for someone to blame or stand up and try to at least try to build a better world to seek instead of a man on a horse to save us or a wall to keep us separated from our better angels, you