A word about the current state of the United States

You may have noticed that I haven't been doing a lot of writing lately--I've been mostly sharing other people's posts and/or videos [on Facebook]. (Sorry I can't find the post about First Nations/Native Americans/Indigenous people being detained by ICE.) That's because there are quite a number of folks who are more articulate than I. But I did want to share a few thoughts, however poorly written. (Sorry about the formatting, which I can't seem to correct.) [ ¶ ] [ ¶ ] I can't help feeling that it’s the MAGAs against the rest of us. It has been politely pointed out by others more politically savvy than I that the Republican Party that we once knew and either loved or hated no longer exists—it has been coopted completely by the Make America Great Again cult of Donald Trump. Those of us who believe that the government is, or, at least (and at best) can be, the solution are pitted against those who believe that the government is the problem and are currently hard at work destroying it from within by firing tens of thousands of federal government employees without regard for expertise and/or the effect of mass firings on the economy. [ ¶ ] [ ¶ ] Social Security might as well be renamed Social *In*security—those of us currently receiving Social Sec. have no idea when, or whether, we’ll receive any further payments, and those who should be receiving Social Sec., either now or in the future, have a snowball’s chance in heck of actually getting it, since applying for Social Sec. is being made as difficult as possible. [ ¶ ] [ ¶ ] Tariffs, which are regressive taxes that affect those at lower income levels much worse than they affect the rich (since an annual increase of, say, $5,000 in expenses means little to someone with an income of five million dollars while being devastating to someone with an income of fifty thousand dollars) are now the law of the land. The wealthy are getting wealthier at the expense of the rest of us—Robin Hood is now robbing the poor to feed the rich. [ ¶ ] [ ¶ ] The war against “wokeness,” Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, is, as a wiser person put it, an effort to resegregate the United States, disenfranchising everyone who isn’t a white, straight, male Christian, and, preferably, a native speaker of English. The MAGAs think blacks and people of color should know their place, gays should go back into the closet, First Nations/Indigenous/Native Americans should stay on the Rez, woman should stay home and make babies, people with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses (or acute illnesses, for that matter) should disappear, Americans should speak English exclusively, immigrants should go back where they came from, and we should all go to church, and they’re trying to rewrite the voting laws, marriage and divorce laws, pregnancy and birth laws, equal opportunity laws and other laws to make it so, up to and including trying to ensure that anyone who can’t afford health care doesn’t receive any. [ ¶ ] [ ¶ ] How long can this country sustain, or put up with, this un-American injustice?