It’s been fascinating—actually—to observe the flood of Donald Trump voters posting their regrets on social media.
Tears over misplaced jobs. Anguish over deported family members. Rage over slashed advantages. “I remorse voting for him,” they wail. However my query is easy: why?
Trump instructed you precisely what he was going to do. He didn’t conceal it. He screamed it at rallies, tweeted it in all caps and signed government orders to make it legislation. But, a lot of you continue to solid your vote considering what—he didn’t imply it? That you’d someway be exempt from the insurance policies meant to hurt “different” individuals?
Now, we’re within the discovering out part.
The simply and the unjust will really feel it
The cruelty of insurance policies doesn’t discriminate when it comes for the individuals who voted them into existence. Certain, they might have been packaged as “powerful on immigration,” “draining the swamp” and “reducing authorities waste,” however that at all times translated into actual individuals shedding their jobs, their properties and their healthcare. It was by no means nearly “them”—whoever you thought “them” was.
Did you suppose job losses would solely hit immigrants? That when firms felt empowered to chop prices, they wouldn’t come for you too? That when support was slashed for the “lazy” and the “undeserving,” they wouldn’t redefine that class to incorporate your struggling household? That when healthcare was gutted, your pre-existing situation would someway be ignored?
That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.
The warfare on variety
And now, with the most recent assault on variety initiatives in training, a few of you might be shocked that your kids’s scholarships, your race-based affinity teams and your cultural tutorial packages are immediately in danger. Sure, based on EducationData.org 57% of Black college students get Pell Grants. However so do 34% of white college students. Did you imagine that they had been solely eliminating the Black cash?
