Summary
Low-income voters who supported Donald Trump are expressing concerns over potential cuts to government benefits as his administration pushes for aggressive spending reductions.
Trump’s newly announced “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is tasked with cutting programs, raising fears about impacts on social safety nets.
Trump also plans to shut down the Education Department, impose tariffs on imports from China, Mexico, and Canada, and has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health Secretary, signaling a focus on controversial health policies.
Voter anxieties about these shifts are growing.
I hate how this is always on fucking point. These people don’t have empathy until it affects them in a personal way, then all of a sudden it’s “who let this happen?!”
It was you, you fucking dipshits, by not having the emotional intelligence to be able to think for one second in another person’s shoes or think out the end conclusion to a piece of rhetoric.
Now they’re concerned?
Also, killing Mexicans and Palestinians is still fine. They’re just worried about their benefits.
I don’t fully blame them. Our systems of news in this country are so bad that you can’t hold them responsible, because they’re in no way fully aware of what a nightmare Trump is going to be. But if their benefits is what wakes them up, with no other change happening in the news landscape, them fuck them and they deserve it.
you can’t hold them responsible, because they’re in no way fully aware of what a nightmare Trump is going to be
if people choose to ignore what’s right in front of their face, that’s a choice they made, and are 100% responsible for. i hold them entirely responsible for being so willfully ignorant and motivated by pure hate. i wouldn’t give a shit if their kindergarten-tier irresponsibility didn’t affect everyone and not just them
I can’t count how many times I saw posts on my Facebook feed that said things like “If you or a loved one relies on Social Security be careful who you vote for”. Knowing the people who posted I know they are Trump supporters. I guarantee that when benefits get cut they’ll find some way to blame it on Biden/Harris/Pelosi, etc. They either don’t see it or refuse to see it. Likewise the number of people in my life who expect an economic miracle by the end of February is unbelievable.
I think it’s best to only assign responsibility where it’s due. People can’t just flip a switch and have the education system and their peers no longer be a part of the problem. We’re not going to address systemic issues by only acknowledging individual’s responsibility, especially when they’re part of a system that promotes ignorance.
That said, individuals still do have agency, so they’re certainly not blameless either. But to hold them fully responsible seems counterproductive.
“He’s not going to hurt the poor. He’s too smart for that.”
Oh, you infuriating fucking summer child. It’d be hilarious if I wasn’t stuck in this hellbound handbasket with the rest of you fucking mongoloids.
Well they deserve their benefits unlike those other poors who are in a bad spot due to their own faults.
See…I don’t look at it that way. It’s not funny to me, even if I weren’t affected.
It’s like watching a blind kitten running into a house that’s on fire. I don’t laugh at the soon to be burning kitten. I cry for the suffering that’s about to take place.
Yes, the kitten chose to run into a burning house. Yes the kitten SHOULD HAVE known that’s a bad idea.
…but they didn’t. They didn’t know what they were truely doing. And now it’s time to suffer from the obvious bad situation you just ran into.
Only difference is, the kitten fire is now affecting the whole country.
Yeeeeaah… but see, your analogy not coincidentally fails, since the kitten is just ignorant.
It would be more accurate if the kitten ran into the burning house because some fat, smelly old tom told it that if it did, the tom and his buddies would destroy the lives of everyone the kitten hates.
So yeah - there’s a lot of ignorance there, but the foundation that makes that ignorance relevant and effective is bigotry and hatred and an utter and complete lack of empathy or integrity. If the kitten wasn’t so blinded by its hatred and cruelty, “run into this burning house to destroy someone else’s life” wouldn’t have been an effective appeal.
Fuck these people. May you reap what you sow.
The bad thing is we all reap what they sow.
All well and good to admire the leopard feast, but I’m worried about the fact that once these people are down and out, society is going to have to collectively carry them one way or another.
It’s concerning that many people near the edge will fall off it, regardless of their voting position.
It’s obviously concerning that since republican policy will be enacted, more will solely be covered via emergency services rather than collective safety nets, which is an overall cost increase to society.
I wish more people realize this.
To the downvotes:
I completely acknowledge that right wing policy is the problem here, and these people brought it about. If anyone deserves consequences, it should be those that actively brought them about.
I am not sympathetic for leopard chew toys, I’m sympathetic for society which has no option but to accommodate them.
America’s version of Brexit is just starting. Wait to see what happens in 3 years’ time!
