When People Go Hungry, We All Feel It 🥺

@itsok If the political candidate a person voted for follows through on campaign promises and as a result, that person is harmed (lost government benefits, business harmed by tariffs or trade wars, etc), does that person have no responsibility for their situation?

@RosaMarie there’s no way you believe that only people who voted for this are being affected

@itsok Of course. I have absolute, unconditional sympathy for all the children affected. And for those that understood the danger and voted against it.

@itsok There is a substantial portion of the affected adults who did vote for it or didn't vote. That's the group I'm struggling with. I'm GenX and have lived my whole life believing we should all be responsible for ourselves first. We should all own the consequences of our actions.

@RosaMarie yeah, when people are hungry, no part of me thinks “you deserve this”. Whether that’s the 39% of snap recipients being children, or the other 61% being adults, voters and non-voters

@itsok And I respect that thinking.

@itsok I feel like I should add, for clarity, that I'm not rooting for this outcome so dumb people can get what's coming to them. I would much rather we all just be decent humans and feed those less fortunate. But here we are.