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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to love living here. Now, I feel overwhelmed and sad most days, like
Trump is destroying everything on a macro level — and making us all in DC less safe (and afraid) on a micro level. [/quote]

Other than in your mind, how has Trump affected you?  Honestly.

I hate trump, but he has no tangible impact on my life.[/quote]

Me personally, the grocery prices have gone up, I have a family member who is in the DACA program and I don’t feel he’s safe anymore.  He was brought to this country at six years old.  I have  undocumented friends who are no longer safe.  They’ve been here 20+ years and have worked mostly in the restaurant and hotel business.  None are criminals. [b]They work 60 hours a week and don’t complain like the American born. [/b]

I’m glad none of my family likes the Southern states we’ve been to because it’s like going back in time down there but that scares me a little if the Southern states get more voting power.

What impact it has on all of us is our country’s destroyed reputation.   The world has seen the MAGA rallies and have seen the effects of an education system in decline.  They see buffoons with very serious jobs in our country.  Blowing up boats, constantly threatening countries.   Tariffs made Trump a joke in China who just didn’t buy our produce.  Now Trump has to hand over $12 to farmers for his stupidity.

It’s affected your life, you just don’t get it.  [/quote]

"They work 60 hours a week and don’t complain like the American born"  Don't you think this is a problem when our workforce is conditioned to working like indentured servants to keep their jobs?  You think this has anything to do at all with the general disenchantment of our young generation with the workplace and early departure of middle class people from the workplace?   I think it's terrible to go after people who had worked and lived here for decades, there should be a path for citizenship for such people who had contributed and assimilated.  But I also don't condone exploitation of labor in general because it ultimately hurts our own population and workforce dynamics.  Please tell me you don't think that having to compete with desperate people wiling to work unpaid OT for many years and never complaining is what we should aspire to do.  :roll:

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