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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not wishing pain for anyone. I've lived in MAGA communities with a lot of people who lived in or adjacent to poverty, and this administration breaks my heart.

People everywhere are being crushed by health care costs, by the high cost of housing, by a government that favors the rich again and again, and that does nothing for ordinary people. I am sickened by how MAGA is using people -- tossing crumbs that make them *feel* seen, and all the while funneling ever more money upstream to billionaires.

As one example, I know a young mother with a high deductible health plan who is still paying off her daughter's birth from 6 years ago, and will be for another decade...even as she racks up new debt for more recent hospital visits and ambulance rides. She just got hit with a $900 bill for routine lab work when she had an ordinary infection. This mother works a full-time job as an office assistant, cares for her aging mother, and works an unofficial side job in her off-hours, and has to squeeze in fighting insurance companies whenever she can. If she were better off as a result of this administration, I would cheer.

But she won't be. Because this administration doesn't care about her, just as doesn't care about her ADHD son who needs an IEP, or her brother who became addicted to opioids after an accident, or about the special needs kid in her family who will never, ever not need care.

If this administration took care of these individuals, I would say so. I would take seriously his assault on the rule of law, I would loathe his hateful rhetoric and his attempts to exert his will with plausible deniability by generating stochastic terrorism. But I would also say, "at least he's helping people."

But instead he's handing over the keys to the kingdom to the richest man on the planet. It is truly disgusting. [/quote]

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