My mileage does vary. My local community, where I had planned to stay until my end-of-days, is being impacted by the current administration's policies in ways that are "not good", on multiple fronts.Originally Posted by Rogar
Not just "Trump is bad, we're upset" sorta things, more like prebudgeted funds vanishing overnight causing layoffs and reduction in hiring by hospitals and clinics, funds for road/bridge repair vanishing, funds for Fire/EMS services vanishing, reliable Federal resources such as CDC and NOAA becoming near-useless, and getting stopped by multiple Federal agencies incredibly often when simply traveling from island-to-island in my county, which is essential for daily life here. Etc etc etc.
Our local Hispanic community is even more impacted, and many of those families have lived in the region as citizens for 100 years. The local First Nations folks are also feeling it, apparently they look Mexican to some of the new ICE folks.
My partner's public school has been impacted financially. And the families and students that attend her school, in the Skagit Valley, are about half Hispanic, and are being hassled. (Though, again, most seem to have been in the USA for generations.)
Universities I work with in the USA have been feeling the pain from the current administration as well.
And my own daughter, as I've mentioned, will not be living in the USA anytime soon, which is unfortunate on a number of fronts.
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