[jessaustin]

You can't really blame an underfunded pension system on somebody who has been governor for a year. Illinois pensions are like many municipal pensions: they were unreasonable the day they were negotiated, and have only grown less reasonable over the many decades since.

There are lots of things wrong with Missouri. Our justice system is brutal to poor people and basically corrupt. Still, our cities are quite violent relative to other cities in USA. The "Department of Natural Resources" has rules to protect the environment, but very few of them are ever enforced against those who are willing to ignore them. (The one time I followed this trail all the way down the rabbit hole, the "Chief of Compliance and Enforcement" claimed that the courts always overrule him when he does choose to do his job, so this issue could be related to the first.) Important infrastructure is allowed to deteriorate while vanity projects get top priority. As a state, we'll vote for Trump again later this year, even though it's clear at this point that his previous anti-war rhetoric was nothing but lies. And so on...