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‘We’re all going backwards’: dismay as Trump undoes Biden student-debt plan
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Yes, that is the point. This administration honestly believes there isn't enough stupid people who will work for pennies in a factory. This is literally according to plan for them. This to them IS IN FACT being pro-family. This is literally how they see it.
You work a back breaking job, so you have to have a couple who work it just to survive, you have children who won't go to school but instead will work in the factory as well. All your family forever working back breaking work. That's what pro-family means to these people.
Like I grew up on a farm. I had to pull hands of tobacco, I had to pick blackberries, I had to setup cows for milking, I did things that I'm surprised I lived through. And my family honestly believes that all made me a better person and they didn't like the fact that I left all nonsense when I could. They honest believe I'm a worse person now because I'm not having my third heat stroke like everyone ought to be at my age.
THIS IS WHAT PRO-FAMILY MEANS TO THEM. Suffering IS pro-family. Being under thumb and never being able to get ahead IS pro-family to them. It's wild I know, but somewhere in their brains this is how you show you really, really, really love someone and care for them. By making them suffer.
This administration is indeed being exactly their version of pro-family. This is what they define as being pro-family. It's insanity to say the least, but this is honest to goodness what they see as helping people. That "screwing a lot of people over" that is exactly what Trump and his voters see as being helpful, kind, caring, loving, and pro-family as it comes to them.
Screwing people over, fucking their lives up, and being completely shit, is this weird "tough love" mindset. Suffering is love to them. I don't know how much clearer I can make it for people. But there are folks who honest to goodness believe that you have to suffer your entire life to know love. That, that suffering IS LOVE.
And those people are the ones running this place.
Hey friend thank for sharing your story I’m sorry you had to go through that trauma I hope you’re happy now or working on it you deserve it.