I'm kind of realizing that my wife and I are in a decent financial position and have good jobs and that things like
* Killing Obamacare and leaving millions without health insurance (but lowering premiums!)
* Lowering taxes on high earners
* Child care credits for high earners and not for the poor
Would all benefit us. The angry cynical part of my brain kind of urges me towards a "you know what, all those white-no-education-economic-malaise people who voted for him are going to get just what they deserve.".
But there's also all the fascist stuff about deportations and walls and I don't want to live in a me me me society anyway, so I'll do what I can to fight this garbage.
Counteracting a me me me society with authoritarian mandates forcing people to give to the poor cannot be morally justified in my opinion.
The just use of the law is to punish those who violate the rights of others, not those who don't meet our personal moral standards on acting altruistically. The latter is treading on theocratic ideology.
* Killing Obamacare and leaving millions without health insurance (but lowering premiums!)
* Lowering taxes on high earners
* Child care credits for high earners and not for the poor
Would all benefit us. The angry cynical part of my brain kind of urges me towards a "you know what, all those white-no-education-economic-malaise people who voted for him are going to get just what they deserve.".
But there's also all the fascist stuff about deportations and walls and I don't want to live in a me me me society anyway, so I'll do what I can to fight this garbage.
Among other things, I just signed up for the ACLU: https://action.aclu.org/secure/renew-your-aclu-membership