See how the things are, going, with the economics still not, bouncing back up, because the countries still hadn't, hit that, ROCK bottom yet, and, combined with the bad politics, no wonder we the people, are becoming, too tired of it all…
Whitney Smith's phone buzzed with a text from her mother, alerting her to the latest can-you-believe-it mess in Washington: "Far right ousted the House speaker. Total chaos now."
Smith, thirty-five, a bookkeeper and registered independent in suburban Phoenix, wanted no part of it. she tries to stay engaged in civic life by voting, volunteering in local campaigns and going to city meetings. But over the past week, the pandemonium of a narrowly averted government shutdown and leadership coup in the Republican-controlled House confirmed many Americans' most cynical feelings about the federal government.
"It was just like, Oh God, what now?" she said.
Griping about politics is a time-honored American pastime—but lately, the country's political mood has plunged to some of the worst levels on record.
After weathering the tumult of the Trump presidency, a pandemic, the Capitol insurrection, inflation, multiple presidential impeachments and far-right Republicans' pervasive lies about fraud in the 2020 election, voters say they feel tired and angry.
In dozens of recent interviews across the country, voters young and old expressed a broad pessimism about the next presidential election that transcends party lines, as well as a teetering faith in political institutions.
The White House and Congress have pumped out billions of dollars to fix and improve the nation's roads, ports, pipelines and internet. They have approved hundreds of billions to combat climate change and lower the cost of prescription drugs. President Joe Biden has canceled billions more in student debts. Yet those accomplishments have not fully registered with voters.
as the governments all over the world, malfunctions, this is, what's, running these, countries of, ours now...
the BAD band of, brothers, making the countries an even, BIGGER, M-E-S-S! Comic from online
Voters said that Washington infighting and the Republicans' flirtation with debt default and government shutdowns recklessly put people's paychecks, health care and benefits at risk at a moment when they are preoccupied with how to pay rising health care and grocery bills, or to cope with a fast-warming climate unleashing natural disasters in nearly every corner of the nation.
"Disgust isn't a strong enough word", said Bianca Vara, a Democrat and grandmother of five in the Atlanta area who runs a stall at a flea market that crackles with discussions of politics.
And so, this is, what it looks like, we the people, are falling lower, and lower, and lower, with our incomes getting, lesser and lesser, and lesser still, and the costs of, healthcare, housing, blah-blah-blah, hiking up, too quickly, and too high up, and, because this is how inflation works, and, the world still hadn't quite hit, that ROCK bottom YET, to bounce back up, and we're all, feeling the strains, of the costs of things we are in dire need of, and it's going to be, a very long AND difficult, winter for everybody in the world to come, as the countries are, in recession now, and, countries everywhere are still, going down this, slippery slope, and we ain't hit that, ROCK bottom Y-E-T, so there's now, bouncing back, UP, not anytime soon!
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