In town hall events hosted by members of the current administration’s party, an interesting phenomenon is on display. DOGE, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, is being ridiculed and attacked for effecting policy changes [by targeting certain work of specific agencies] under the pretext of ridding government of waste, fraud and abuse; the messaging carefully crafted by alt-right, conspiracy internet media is no longer working.
Those who threw their support behind the new president, believing, notwithstanding January 6 and multiple criminal prosecutions, the price of eggs was too high, now voice, in angry protest directed at their elected congressmen, what can only be described as a fierce, though befuddled, rage. So completely misled by the echo chambers which have consistently offered them ready lies, the truth is starting to be glimpsed and mumbled inarticulately.
This may be because the online talkers have failed to explain the current administration’s abandonment of Ukraine, its trade war with the West, and the accessing, etc. of personal data by, and obvious self-dealing of, a Silicon Valley billionaire- all at the expense of everyday Americans.
People are angry, and the town halls show, sadly, that many Americans are fine with immigrants and transgender persons losing their rights and being treated roughly, as long as their food stamps, their medi-caid benefits, and their social security checks are not put at risk. Though perhaps too late, persons are beginning to see what has always been true, namely that the president is a grifter; and now, he has invited his billionaire friends [those who got him elected] to plunder the commons, remove labor protections, and undue the efforts of the last 60 years.
Remind me again what are the opposites of diversity, equity, inclusion? Nothing desirable. I hope the persons yelling at the town hall events figure this out quickly, because our Country is depending on their doing so. We need to help them correctly diagnose the issues and better articulate the problems. We need to help them understand the harms a demagogue, this demagogue, can and will cause.
Those who’ve not forsaken the truth for alternate facts, those who still believe in science, those who continue to claim universal human dignity, those who are not so entrenched in religion or ideology to see, must now engage. We must say what is going on. We must resist our Country being controlled by unelected, would-be, oligarchs by telling the truth. Now is the time.
It’s time for the truths spoken in these town halls [without losing any energy] to be clearly articulated. It’s time, as it were, for some passionate, well-reasoned town hall truth.