I see this whole BBB debacle as typical of Americans views: too busy, too ignorant, too selfish to be bothered with the results of their decisions to support this man. It just takes too much time to actually familiarize yourself with potential impacts, even to yourself. I’d add another hobby horse of mine over the past few decades. I call it the, ‘Walmartization of America’. Big business loved Walmart’s business plan; low wages, little to no benefits, no real retirement support or benefits, no job protections. This plan has been replicated and ‘improved’ on for the past 35 years and has spread like wildfire (we have more of those too, but, how does that affect me?) across virtually all employment sectors with the exception of Federal{Hello Douche, er DOGE) and a few Unions {Hello Teachers). And as it has happened most of the public simply decided that if they didn’t have these things (retirement, sick leave, vacations, decent wages, etc.), then no one else deserved them either. To a degree, I see this attitude repeating with anything that the Administration’s actions might take away. Rather than be mad about it, they are at best ambivalent. If I don t have health care why should anyone else? And no matter how loudly you beat the drum, it’s going to be really difficult to convince people that they should care that the dear leader and his cadre of willing sycophants are marching these damn fool lemmings right over a cliff.
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