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A Boring Dystopia
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It's hard for people to believe this kind of crazy though.
I get it, but if you pitched this to a movie studio they'd say it was far fetched, so the average person can be forgiven, I think.
I think you're underestimating the normalcy bias and overestimating how much the average person outside the US understands about what's going on there.
Do we know it was a pure tourist visit and they could choose the location? Many state departments are already flagging the US with a state instability warning if not no-go, so I'd assume she (or the husband) was here on business, or because there were circumstances that pushed them.
To be fair, NYC is pretty blue, it's just the NYPD that has been for decades a threat to the people, especially nonwhites, with Bloomberg's mayorship taking much of the blame.