Magic acts are based on illusion and distraction. The audience is looking at the fancy handwork while things appear and disappear.
Just so have the MAGA Republicans fooled the majority of their base. Being woke is the distraction — women who have abortions, people who are transgender, or gay, or pro-Palestinian, or illegal immigrants, or whatever else are the root of our problems. Mired in economic despair, people are somehow made to feel that massively wealthy people are their kin, not immigrants desperate for food and a roof over their heads.
Here in the Hamptons, as in the bowels of Kentucky, the exodus of the young is the problem. The young in both places leave in search of economic prosperity. Affordable housing. Job security. The “great big, beautiful bill” the Senate has just passed will do nothing to alleviate these issues. The Republican Party lies. The Democrats flounder.
People: Take off your rose-colored glasses. Stop listening to that siren song. Think. Talk. Change.
Time is short. It is up to you to see the reality, not the rabbit.
Amy Paradise
Hampton Bays
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