Protests Make Me Proud

 

       So yes it is a bad time to be an American. The country is in distress, we go from crisis to crisis, we have people being fired for no reason, essential programs being cut, a president who had aligned himself with the authoritarians and Putin instead of our European allies. The global aid has been stopped, hurting people worldwide. Stopping HIV treatments, Ebola prevention and prevention for other deadly diseases, feeding people (FEEDING PEOPLE)  so they don't starve. Many of them children. The treatment of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the oval office by trump and vance was despicable, horrible and so awful to treat a war hero who has fought alongside his people for years against Russian aggression. 

   The world order has been upended. We are no longer the leader of the free world. It is moving on to Europe and we are, what would be called in WW2, aligned with the Axis Powers. North Korea, Iran, China, Russia, Belarus. Trump betrayed our allies and, with his tariffs, has caused our goods to be boycotted and large tariffs from the other countries to cripple our economy. 

  The cabinet picks are insane. Kristi Noem in charge of homeland security, Tulsi Gabberd in charge of our intelligence, RFK (an antivaxxer and spreader of conspiracy theories involving vaccines, disease prevention and more) in charge of HEALTH for our country. Fox news host in charge of the defense department. A bunch of people in charge who have no experience other than being on TV now in charge of our government. This is not to mention the horrible DOGE which is run by Elon Musk and has been in charge of firing thousands of federal employees for no reason, has put 19 to 24 year olds in charge of agencies where they are accessing very sensitive information about our populace. 


   It is all very disheartening, anxiety producing and can get you feeling depressed. But we need to stay focused on resistance! The authoritarian regime can only flourish under a apathetic and uninformed populace. The ways we are pushing back is working. GOP senators are running and hiding, not wanting to do town halls anymore. People in government are being asked to defend the indefensible and it is causing them immense stress and actually changing some of them! 


But we need to keep it up. Take breaks. Take care of yourself. Give yourself joyful things to do because we need to make sure that we have something left to be worth fighting for. 


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