Emotion-based perceptions take precedence over facts, in the modern U.S. of A. The recent presidential campaigning gives proof of that, as does PETA membership.
I don't know if there is any hope for the Left Coast. Some years back, a cougar killed a woman near Sacramento. The cougar, a mother cat with two cubs, was then killed. People out there donated more money for care of the cubs than to the family of the dead woman...
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