For years, Mackeys Ferry Sawmill in North Carolina depended on overseas buyers in China and Vietnam after domestic demand for premium hardwood declined. But when President Donald Trump launched his escalating trade war, the mill’s owners say the damage was immediate and ultimately irreversible. By July—just months after Trump declared his “Liberation Day” tariffs—they made the decision to shut the…
There’s something weird about seeing people saying they would vote for Trump again despite this one sliver of action that cost them everything. These folks are mad at something and it’s not specifically red or blue in the conventional sense. It feels like there is social pushback against something we all feel. A pressure put upon each of us.
It’s not specifically capitalism. It’s how no one has any influence on the output of what happens except the most despicable individuals, like CEOs and politicians. A lot of people are being ignored and it’s making everyone mad enough to vote erratically for whoever speaks the same level of angry as them.
Fuck institutions. They never listened anyway but now they don’t work with society as the focal point. Money has taken over as the motivation instead of improving things for the next generation.
Huh. Well put. Now it’s got me thinking, more folks are becoming cruel because they see those bad folks getting what they want. Monkey see Monkey do, right? It’s hard when you struggle every day just to make it. Only to see someone who has no morals living in security.