It blows my mind how our government lets people go hungry
It's unfathomable to think we live in a country where there are organizations fighting to end hunger while our government is simultaneously starving people. We all support organizations fighting to feed people while pretending it's ok that millions of people in this country fail to get their daily nourishment, and that it’s normal that this responsibility falls on the shoulders of everyone but the organization we pay trillions in dollars to. The government.
It blows my mind how easily we all turn a blind eye and pretend like its ok. Like all the money spent on wars, destruction, and to further line peoples pockets instead of helping people is just the way it is. Why? Why do we pretend like it is? Why do we pretend like it's just the way it has to be.
I read a few articles about Zohran Mamdani and his ideas for NYC. I didn't think any of them were crazy. Raising the minimum wage to something livable, where people would only have to work one job to have a life. Funding groceries stores with tax dollars so everyone can eat. Freezing rents for people living in rent controlled apartments. All these things to help the people that are struggling and the response I read from the people who's taxes would increase is I'm going to leave the city. Businesses whose taxes would increase are going to leave the city.
Rather than being part of something historic, and helping to pick people up, people and businesses are like no we're just going to leave, and then what will you do? How unwell do you have to be for that to be your stance? You're a millionaire, a billionaire, and rather than fork some more money into the pot you want to leave to prove a point.
People are sometimes shitty, but people are waking up to that realization. As the divide grows bigger so does the number of people who are struggling and who are realizing that they have to band together to protect themselves by electing people who will fight for regulations that serve them. That they need to stop pretending like living in the richest country in the world and not having anything to eat or anywhere to live is ok.
That's what the election of a Democratic Socialist in New York City says, and that's what the overwhelming support of propositions in Colorado to support free school meals for kids k-12 says. That we're sick and tired and we won’t stand for it any more.