Explaining the reasoning behind some of the
protesting and possible future protesting going on over the next few years for
those who don’t understand it and I’m not even touching many of the protests
that are currently taking place.
Since the election, more than half of the
population feels like logical things that the expected out civilized life are
being pulled out from under their feet.
Sort of like the world of Back to the Future where Biff gets into a
position of power. It wasn’t a slow
talking a girl into bed, for a large percentage of our population, it was a rough act without lube. There’s a word for that.
Examples?
Environment
Our government has a department called the
EPA which might be the only good thing that came out of President Nixon’s time
in office which protected the small guy from the great corporations who thought
it was a good idea to dump toxic garbage into waterways. Who kept the corporations in check that
wanted who wanted to take the cheap route with disposal of toxins.
Since then, they have taken a larger foot
print on the world stage in slowing down climate change and generally bringing
about a climate in industry of doing the right thing when able. With 99.9 percent of the scientists believing
in climate change and more than half of the population thinking, yes, it’s
important to preserve as much as we can for our children, it’s sort of a big
deal to many folk.
When those protections
get gutted and we put the corporations and profit before the long term future.
People might be upset.
Banking
In the 2000’s, banking regulations were
changed and it made it possible for people who didn’t qualify for home loans
prior able to qualify for loans during a time were us as a nation was fighting
to wars on a credit card meaning that while we were spending money hand over
fist, instead of raising taxes to fund the war we pushed it off till
later. That bill still hasn’t come
due.
Almost everyone I knew (actually everyone I
knew which was quite a few people) who got one of those loans has been
foreclosed on and their lives tossed into chaos. Now those regulations to keep the banks from
doing this again are being pulled.
People might get upset.
These are only two of the issues but when the
smartest tools in our shed are kicked to the curb, we are losing our brain
trust. It doesn’t look good in the big
picture, we are all human with human failings.
When you don’t acknowledge when you have made a mistake or you make that
mistake the new truth, there is a word for that, lying. That doesn’t fly far in this world of fact
checking. And when people who follow you
gloss over those mistakes, what does that mean for the moral center of us as a
people?
