I am completely at a loss.
When I see what Johnson did, with Schumer reportedly bragging to his colleagues about how easily Speaker Johnson gave Democrats everything they wanted and asked for nothing in return, the list of Republicans including people like Ted Cruz who voted for the package, I understand.
I understand how our forefathers felt about Taxation Without Representation.
I have spent time for the last several years getting involved in local politics, trying to do my part, and it feels utterly pointless.
I feel that everyone who is ostensibly on our side is compromised with blackmail, greed, or power, when they aren’t actually ideologically aligned fully with enemies of this Republic.
It is not a new feeling, but I feel now in a deeper and much more meaningful way that they are simply going to do what serves their own interests. I won’t stop fighting, but it does seem pointless, and so few of us.
You are finding it hopeless at the local level as well ?
That’s the one area I have worked where we had some success.