The entire country is turning into a huge steaming pile of excrement. I hardly recognize the country we live in anymore.
Racism is just plain out in the open on twitter all over the place. It isn't even carefully veiled.
Something that I've loved my entire life, college football, has become crappy pro football and the B1G is flirting with selling off to private equity. And there aren't even contracts with players so that you know who is on the teams from one year to the next. It's like it's a whole new team every year.
We've slowed the rate of inflation, and that's good, but that means prices of everything is still going up and three small bags of groceries cost $400. I had to take out second mortgage to buy milk.
I had a man, sweet man that I go to church with, who mentally is... delayed... confide in me that he is losing his food stamps because of the government shut down. I know he isn't the only one in our church that is happening to. Talking with my brother about this the other night he tells my that his sister-in-law was informed by text message from the government that she was losing her food stamps this week (sister of his wife who died, he still calls her his SIL). By TEXT MESSAGE. Can't even send her a damn hard copy letter.
And speaking of church... as I've said, I no long identify as an evangelical because of the spiritualization of support for Trump by evangelicals. I'm having growing conflicts with many of the labels that are used within the Christian community because none of them seem to fit any more. I found a church where I am comfortable. The place where I live is the whitest place where I live in my life. My current church is the only church that I've visited since I've been here where I've seen people of color, so it seemed to me that this church was reaching its community in ways that other churches were not, and since I've been here I've found that to be true.
And healthcare, the topic of this thread. We actually have forces that want to undo the advances we've made in modern medicine. But make no mistake about it, those forces do not want to undo it to improve health, they want to undo it to enrich trial lawyers. Those who want to protect the current system want to protect a system that does nothing but enrich corporations. It's time to burn it all down and start over. The VA system is actually a model that works pretty good.
Our politics... I've mentioned this before... every time I look up to assess where I am politically I find myself further to the left of the current Republican party, and it started during COVID, and I'm pretty doggone sure that my principles and beliefs haven't changes. I'm just astounded, flabbergasted... taking people off the streets and shipping them to foreign prisons without due process. And people cheer this. I want the borders closed and protected. I want ICE to perform it's basic function. But I also want the Constitution upheld. Yes, it will take 1000 years to give everyone due process and equal protection under the law, that is the mess that we have on our hands, but that is what the Constitution demands and that is what protects ALL OF US. And if all of us aren't protected by the Constitution then none of us are.
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