u/nohobal

I feel like many people treat politics like a trivial team sport and distance themselves from the human cost of policy choices. When Trump got elected in 2024, there were people online treating it like a big joke. Whether they were supportive of him or indifferent to the election results, many of the people I follow on social media were making memes about it or sending me Trump dancing GIFs. And I’m thinking “people are going to suffer and you think this is a joke?”

And now, many of Trump‘s policy choices are resulting in preventable deaths. There’s the USAID cuts, war crimes in Iran, ICE killings, deaths in ICE custody, Medicaid and SNAP cuts, etc. Harris would not have made these policy choices.

If I bring up the human cost of Trump‘s policies, I’m sure many Trump supporters will say I have TDS or that the human cost is fake news. Any way to emotionally distance oneself from the human cost of policy choices.