Dear Editor,
There is a great divide in this country, but MAGA politicians do not want us to notice: the top 1% of Americans hold 10 times more wealth than the bottom 50% of us.
MAGA knows that division creates conflict and a divide-and-conquer, winner-take-all society. Abortion, minimum wage, and threats from climate change are issues that we must address together. MAGA found a way to fabricate division on these issues.
The fact is, we Americans are far more united than we are divided.
According to recent polling, 61% of Americans feel the current immigration policy is a problem, but 57% feel immigration is ivitalto our national identity. Sixty-four percent feel abortion should be legal in most or all cases, and 59% feel Roe v. Wade should not have been overturned. Sixty-two percent of Americans favor increasing the federal minimum wage to $15/hr. Sixty-seven percent want to prioritize developing alternative energy, such as wind and solar.
We as a country are nowhere as divided as Trump and MAGA want us to believe.
As we advance, we can’t stand by while Trump implements the agenda he claims he has a mandate for. We must be engaged citizens if our collective will is to be respected. You may not be interested in politics, but politics interests you. We are being manipulated.
Stay involved in the following weeks and years, and watch what is being done in your name.
Richard Burt, Athens