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Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Robert Reich, and other progressive voices have echoed this sentiment.<\/p>\nRachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Robert Reich, and other progressive voices have echoed this sentiment.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t try this alone!?\u201d<\/p>\n
The building evidence of hypocrisy, indiscriminate cruelty, and simple cluelessness has swept through the country faster than long-shots have been eliminated in this year\u2019s March Madness basketball tourney. When it comes to Madness, <\/em><\/strong>the Trump administration has no peer.<\/p>\n It can feel overwhelming to try to fight the very uneven electoral landscape alone. It has been worked on for decades through gerrymandering and court decisions like Citizens United.<\/p>\n Monied people have always had some advantages, but what we\u2019re experiencing today is purely about the rules being re-made by whoever can buy an election.<\/p>\n Elon Musk has spent close to three hundred million dollars in supporting Trump-related candidates and causes but has the potential to net tens of billions<\/strong> of dollars in government contracts, tax credits and subsidies.<\/p>\n Maybe it could be declared a good business investment for him, but it doesn\u2019t seem aligned with the values behind the American experiment in self-governance.<\/p>\n I might laugh at the absurdity of the characters and escapades involved, but I have been so disheartened. Kristy Noem and RFK are jokes when it comes to their lack of qualifications. And Pete Hegseth, DOD, denying the impropriety of sharing very sensitive info about military maneuvers on a platform that can be purchased at the App Store, how ridiculous.<\/p>\n I think about the starving children from around the world whose modest portion of aid from the US has been cut off. Or federal workers who have been fired for no cause, not to eliminate redundancy but to eliminate services.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been eager to convey how wrong it is to misname such cuts as \u201cgovernment efficiency\u201d when it\u2019s like reducing your family\u2019s expenses by leaving half your children at the mall.<\/p>\n Simply eliminating services does not eliminate the need. Privatizing usually doesn\u2019t serve anyone except the individuals who win the contract to provide the services. Making maximizing profits the guiding principle for fulfilling everyone\u2019s needs suggests that everyone must live in large metro area because that works best for the supplier.<\/p>\n Many of the same people who rail against Medicaid come from states and rural areas that depend on Medicaid to keep regional hospitals open and employ large percentages of their home towns.<\/p>\n All these supposed \u201cefficiencies,\u201d conducted without clear goals and measurements, means we are less capable of mounting life-saving research, addressing climate-related disasters or increases in mental health issues. We can\u2019t even enjoy our national parks, now rendered grossly understaffed.<\/p>\n Okay, I\u2018m mad, and I haven\u2019t even started on the intentional erasing or whitewashing of history to suit what some WANT to make others believe was true, but\u2026<\/p>\n I read all sorts of articles, listened to hours of YouTube videos highlighting the best from pundits and podcasters. I signed scores of online petitions and knew there were others who were outraged by similar things, but it wasn\u2019t until I attended an in-person meet and greet in the back of a neighborhood bar that I really felt I belonged to a group of people who could make a difference.<\/p>\n
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