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We’ve essentially spent our whole lives divided into two groups. Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, left and right.
I’ll be honest, I don’t get the whole party loyalty thing. I’m just a citizen of a democracy who wants my government to work for me. I want my tax dollars to fund services that benefit my community.
Is that radical? It feels practical. It feels like the way the system was supposed to work before we were all conned into believing that this dysfunctional dystopia is the best that government can do.
Today, I see a government that works for exactly one group: the rich.
The Trump administration promised a booming economy, lower prices, and America first. They have all the power to make that happen. So who’s benefitting?
CEOs. Tech bros. Crypto bros. Insider traders. Billionaires on their way to trillionaires.
And for the rest of us? “It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare … We’re fighting wars,” President Donald Trump said recently.
I know rich people aren’t paying enough taxes, but the rest of us are getting wars and golden ballrooms for our tax dollars?
I don’t care about politics. I care about quality of life. The Epstein Class, whether they’re Republicans or Democrats, will never deliver.
I think we need grassroots public servants in office. They’re running, but we can’t keep voting red or blue. We’ve got to start voting along the only lines that have ever really divided us — the rich, and the rest of us.
Sydney Michalski
Columbia
