I’m having a difficult time figuring out how this Administration claims this is the “golden age” for the United States when people are being kidnapped and imprisoned by ICE thugs for the crime of being black or brown. Our economic policies are enriching the wealthy while impoverishing everyone else with high prices for healthcare, childcare, health insurance, home insurance, food, and housing. Our environment is being destroyed with the rollback of environmental regulations that protect our air and water and deal with climate change. Our health is being put at risk by placing incompetent inexperienced conspiracy theorists in charge of it. Measles is back. Hospitals are closing. Medical research is being defunded. Poor people are being thrown off of Medicaid. 400 women have been criminally prosecuted for miscarriages. Education is being gutted and a reverse brain drain is occurring in real time as the best and the brightest are choosing to study and do research outside the U.S. Actual history is being erased and rewritten to center the myth of white supremacy. Journalists are being prosecuted and news outlets are being sold to Trump supporters to control the messaging that no longer values truth. CBS News, including “60 Minutes” have been co-opted. Anderson Cooper quit. And now CNN has fallen into the same evil hands with Paramount purchasing Warner Bro. We have learned that rich and powerful men have sexually abused minors with impunity for years. And it is likely that Trump is among them.
And now Trump has joined with Israel to start a war with Iran without Congressional approval. One of their strikes killed over 50 middle school girls. None of these things make us safer or more secure. Innocent lives are being lost. Billions of dollars are being wasted, and our country will again become the target of terrorists’ attacks at a time when the FBI has been gutted and turned over to that corrupt party animal Kash Patel.
I ask myself if these people in charge, Trump, Mike Johnson, Steven Miller, JD Vance and the billionaires who fund them, are actually short-sighted or if they plan to rule over ashes? Their actions are so incredibly destructive that I can’t help but wonder if their plan is to ultimately destroy the country and its people. And for what reason? You can’t destroy the environment without dire consequences to everyone, including themselves. You can’t steal taxpayer money to enrich yourselves with luxury planes and ballrooms and lavish parties while people struggle and starve. It makes no sense to allow people to be chronically sick or even die by making medical care unaffordable and pushing misinformation while defunding medical research and still expect to have a healthy population able to contribute and defend the country. What they are doing is unsustainable. And now they are sending our military into harm’s way to distract from the Epstein files. None of these moves are an improvement.
This country is unrecognizable to me. And yet, I am hopeful that enough judges and citizens will continue to wake up and resist. There are more sane than insane people in this country who aren’t willing to sacrifice their freedom, their health, and their children’s future to continue to feed the ego and greed of a madman and his white nationalists base of supporters. I predict that a real revolution is coming and that it will be sooner rather than later.