Copeland's Corner: September 14, 2023

As an American voter heading into an election year, I’ve got lots of concerns.

As an American voter heading into an election year, I’ve got lots of concerns. There are things I’m worried about. Things that I think are serious, yet apparently about half the country doesn’t.

I’m worried about whether or not my kids and their peers will ever be able to own their own homes short of inheriting them when mom and dad die.

I worry about whether or not they’ll have any kind of job security and how many of them will lose their livelihoods thanks to Artificial Intelligence and other yet to be created tools that will make their training and education obsolete.

I worry about the crushing student loan debt that hampers the ability of Millennials and Gen Z’ers to get to a place of financial security.

I worry about cuts to Social Security as well as its future solvency.

I worry about the medication that I must take for the rest of my life that costs me $60 out of pocket per month now, but if I lose my health insurance will cost me $1500 per month.

I worry about the fact that child poverty is on the rise here, in the richest country on the planet.

I worry about children going to school in the morning and never returning home because the gun lobby thinks that letting crackpots own weapons of war is more important than the lives of little kids.

I worry about climate change and the extreme heat, cold, rain, hurricanes, and wildfires we’re experiencing because of it. I worry about what people will do when these disasters strike, and they have no homeowner’s coverage because insurers have fled their states.

I worry about Covid. It’s not over. There’s a new strain that is immune to all previous vaccines and forcing up the number of hospitalizations as we speak. I worry about the fools who feel that their “freedom” is more important than a public health crisis.

I worry about these things and some politicians are actually discussing the problems and trying to come up with solutions.

On the flipside, we have politicians whose total focus is:

Hunter Biden’s Laptop.

Finding something (anything) they can use to try and impeach Joe Biden.

Banning books.

Eliminating diversity.

Eliminating an accurate account of African American History.

Wokeness (even though they literally cannot define it).

Wars against Mickey Mouse and Barbie.

Forcing 10-year-old sexual victims to carry their rapist’s babies to term.

Twisting themselves into pretzels to protect Donald Trump from accountability for his actions at all costs.

Maybe I’m naïve, but I thought that the purpose of elected officials was to work hard to solve problems that make life better for their constituents. Am I wrong?