According to the debate, they had their reasons. But still – when one hundred and eighty six nations say one thing, and two say another, you have to wonder about the two.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    81·
    1 month ago

    I don’t understand how as a country we have gotten to the point

    I hate to inject politics, but this is very much state by state and locale by locale. NOT “as a country”.

    Take the recent issue with summer lunch program for school kids. As far as I know, it was no strings attached free money from the federal government, yet some states used it and some didn’t, and pretty much on party lines. This is not a singular example, but repeated over and over: how are basic rights turned into political posturing at the expense of citizens?

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
      31·
      1 month ago

      Repugnicans have been obstructionists so long, they don’t really know how to do anything other than get frothingly angry at non-issues. Probably some of them were angry that it benefited the poor.