The battery-powered scooter at the very start means it’s quite recent. The ‘scene’ there looks very much like South Africa, where you have beautiful, tall, buildings, but a Third World look at street level.
Is this REALLY what most liberals want? I doubt it. More like they’re confused...they are told to HATE TRUMP and anything like him, including the GOP, but then they see this. In the end, they default to doing as told, as they always have, even from the Hippie Days.
The only similar scene I can remember are part of Mexico—it was some university we visited—magnificent architecture with dozens of huge buildings—all vacated.