I thought I would take perverse pleasure in how badly the Trumpeteers have fucked themselves but every new appointee makes me ill. The Republicans now have carte blanche to strip every chance of hope these people have. I know a guy (who didn't vote) whose meds will go up $1100 if they kill the ACA. I work with racists who all think their 401s are gonna skyrocket now that we have a real BIZNESSMAN in the White House. I live in a state that would happily shoot themselves in the foot just to keep the "good ole days" where negroes and women knew their place. Trump is their man. Nevermind that two minutes of critical thinking of every person that man sees in his golden suite would tell them he doesn't give a shit about their future. When was the last time the Republicans ever pushed an agenda to help these people? Please, I'm really asking. Besides keeping my right to buy assault rifles and force my control over a woman's uterus or save me from the scary minorities? Trump, and more importantly the people pulling Trump's strings are going to screw this country up so badly and the 60 million who voted for him will be the ones to go down in flames, completely ignorant of why.
I find myself withdrawing my empathy. I didn't want this for anyone. I still don't. Millions are going to die early, needlessly. Millions more are going to see their standards of living erode further. Yet they are the ones who want it the most. I went to an auction once. There were some four-year-old projectors there I was interested in. Things were going for crazy prices; I was basically along for the ride at some point. I got to talking to the guy next to me; he said he wanted one of those projectors for his trailer. I told him that the bulbs alone were more than a new projector and even showed him the replacement bulb on Amazon on my new-fangled smartphone. The dude bid the projectors up past their bulb cost, past their working cost, past their new cost, staring at me the entire time. He sure showed me. Wasn't going to let some ponytailed asshole talk him out of a deal! The left has long been too patronizing of the poor right and the poor right has long been too hatefully scornful of the left. I've blown through "patronizing", am breezing through "sympathetic" and have to fight to stay out of "scornful." The Republican Party hasn't given a fuck about the working class since they nominated Taft over Roosevelt.