Originally Posted by
bobbie solo
So we're not allowed to have empathy for the millions of people already and soon to be affected by the myriad of racist immigration policies enacted that hurt brown people, immigrants and refugees? Or how about empathy for the millions of people, and this will include alot of us directly, that are about to be fucked by this new tax scam for the uber rich? How about a general bad feeling I have every day over the gutting of our EPA and the monsters that have been installed there? Related to that, how about the embarrassment I felt when I spoke to my good friends in Austria after this asshole pulled us out of the Paris Accords?
I'll continue. How about how much time and frustration millions of rational, good-hearted people now spend every day discussing this monster amongst friends, and the anger and stress that comes out of that? How about when a woman was killed by a white supremacist, and the president defended people on their side of the rioting that day? You don't think that can adversely affect people that were not involved that day? Empathy is a real thing.
How about that disgusting military spending bill he wanted & got that gave them ANOTHER $80 billion to waste. That's federal money that would fund dozens of worthwhile programs that will help people all over this country, from hings like CHIP on down to simple infrastructure projects. These things every real people every day. That's more healthcare for kids, or a job fixing a road that keeps a guy employed for a year.