It blows my mind how our government lets people go hungry
It's so fucking dumb that we live in a country where there are organizations fighting to end hunger while our government is simultaneously starving people. We all support these organizations fighting to feed people pretending like it's ok that millions of people in this country fail to get their daily nourishment, and like 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 its normal. Like all the money we choose to spend 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 heard from the people who's taxes would increase is I'm going to leave the city. Business is going to leave the city.
Rather than being part of something historic, like giving people a break, people and businesses are like no we're just going to leave, and then what will you do? How shitty of a person 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 and drain the city.
People are sometimes shitty. But I'm glad that the majority 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 pass laws and protect themselves. That they need to stop pretending like living in the richest country in the world and not having anything to eat, 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 of all you, and we're going to come for what we deserve.