Mind you fall in the hole you dig for somebody else (thoughts on the MAGA agenda)

I've said this before but I'm saying it again, when your politicians 

1. favor of a low (or no) minimum wage;
2. disfavor universal access to health care;
3. disfavor unions - which they present as Right to Work legislation,

then please understand that they are working to set you up to be easily exploitable by corporations.

If you voted for these people because they held these views, then all I can say to you is "Mind you fall in the hole you dig for somebody else!" 

When your politicians write legislation that

1. gives preferable tax treatment to a single university, one that happens to be linked to the Sec'y of Education (even if they later scratch it out of their legislation, the problem of having thought it a good idea remains You don't delete the thinking that led to the writing of this bit of legislation; you can't.);
2. gives relief from billions (with a b) in estate taxes to a group of people that numbers in the thousands, not hundreds of thousands or millions and whose assets exceed $5.45 million;
3. gives permanent tax relief to corporations and temporary tax relief to people (but then I keep forgetting, corporations are people too!)

it's necessary to repeat, "Mind you fall in the hole you dig for somebody else."

And then, la pièce de résistance!, having done those things, and blown a trillion dollar hole in the country's balance sheet, these self-same politicians start squawking about entitlement reform; such reform to include the ‘reform’ (read slashing) of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the Children's Health Insurance Program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and anything else they deem extraneous.

Mind you fall in the hole you dig for somebody else. 

SNAP cuts? That'd be the hole you dug for some unworthy person.
Medicare cuts? That's the hole for you.

Medicaid cuts? Hole you dug for somebody else.
Social Security cuts? That one's yours. 

When all of this information lies before you, is it not time to accept that this government is not yours? Is it not time to accept that your government does not have your best interests at heart?

Ah, but that's why you voted for them isn't it? Except you thought you would be able to control the odiosity. LOL.  

Here's the thing: when you keep voting for these people with these radically odious views because you think they will harm someone else on your behalf, this is what's going to happen eventually. Your pet viper is eventually going to bite you. It really is only a matter of time. It's a viper for Heaven's sake! 

This is how ugly policy works. If you explicitly approve the creation of policies that harm others, you also implicitly approve the creation of policy that harms you. In technology, we call that ‘scope creep’ and if you aren’t a hawk about managing scope, it’s almost inevitable. Who's hawk-eyeing ugly policy for scope creep? Anybody? Nope. And that's my point. Ain't nobody seeking to prevent it so you can be sure it will come. As we say in my pays natale (home country), "Mind you fall in the hole yuh dig for somebody else!". 

Here's another Caribbean saying that's equally relevant: "Stone doh have eyes!". Children in the Caribbean throw stones. A lot. We're surrounded by fruit trees and sometimes we don't want to wait for the fruit to fall. And so stones (and sometimes sticks) come in handy. But stones don't have eyes and they could - and frequently did/do - go where you didn't intend them to go.....into windows; up on roofs of neighboring homes, making a helluva lot of noise; into the backs of people's heads; into the fronts of people's heads (I have a forehead scar that proves the truth of that). The same is true of vicious policy. 

Policy - like stones - doesn't have eyes. Every time we give the OK to ugly policy, policy that (we hope) victimizes some group that isn't us - cuts to urban communities for example - we quietly (and inadvertently) give approval for the eventual deployment of the same kind of thinking and policy on ourselves.

Hey, it's a free country, so feel free and comfy doing this. Dig yuh hole! Throw yuh stone! Carry on if it works for you, but know where you're going with this. Or better put, know where you're giving politicians permission to take you.