I just like to be prepared. I've been thinking about getting some bulk meats (1/4, maybe 1/2 a cow) for at least ten years. With parents who grew up in the Great Depression (one on a farm), and both squeezing a penny until Lincoln screamed, begged for mercy, then fainted, I'm a slow, thoughtful planner. I have extra freezers and the rest of this set up because I made different choices than others did.
I get the impulse to let those who voted for this touch the stove and feel the pain of a bad burn and hope they learn a lesson. Unfortunately, many people who did not vote for this are being badly burned too.
Unfortunately, since the Democrats
suck at messaging and the Republicans lie whenever they breathe, many voters will not understand what a threat the Republicans' "Big Beautiful" plans will have until they actually feel it. You can tell them what it's going to do, how much it's going to hurt, how disruptive it's going to be, and they'll still vote against their own interests and the interest of others
until they've been burned.
So I don’t see how we can just stand back and watch millions get hurt badly and do nothing.
The question is what should voters recommend their representatives in Congress (House and Senate) do? What should they support? It's a serious crap sandwich right now and "going along" won't help if RePOTUS Trump and team will clawback funds and reallocate as they desire. Some of the stuff OMB Director Vought, of Project 2025 fame, plans to do may be patently
illegal and could be overturned in court. Maybe support some legal teams who are taking the matters to court? The court seems to be the only one trying to keep the system working according to some kind of rules.
It's possible for a group of Blue State Buyers(R) (maybe an LLC) to have a kind of GoFundMe type pool and buy the farms/equipment of Trump supporters to keep the farms from becoming corporate farms. Certainly not enough for them to take a long vacation on the Spanish Riviera, but enough to not lose the farm. Maybe include a logo or something that they have to display that shows that they weren't "saved" by RePOTUS Trump, but by "bleeding heart liberals," kinda like how I wish the state expanded Medicaid programs had had to have an asterisk that explained that this is part of the Affordable Care Act.
