It's A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall On Us All

​He sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.
- Matthew 5:45

​       Alas, we are at this moment a country as divided as can be. But this is about to change:
         When the mass deportation of migrant agricultural workers and those who work in the egg, dairy, meat, and other food processing sectors cause grocery prices to soar and food inventory to drop;

​      When the deportation of undocumented workers in the construction trades along with punishing tariffs on imported materials make home repairs skyrocket in cost and hard to come by;

    When you can't buy a new car because tariffs have cut availability and sent prices through the roof; when Trump's tariffs on foreign goods raise the price of almost everything;

     When the American automobile industry flounders in obsolescence because, in his promotion of out-dated fossil fuel technology, Donald Trump has crushed electric vehicle production and China rules the future and the world in producing the electric vehicles that the world wants;

   
​     When restaurants lack workers and nursing homes lack care staff;

     When our gay and transgender friends or loved ones or selves live in fear and suffer mistreatment at work and in society because Donald Trump has declared that in this country only gender straight men and women  are allowed to exist;  

     When the safety of our food supply is no longer guaranteed because last Friday Trump fired the independent Inspectors General of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services, under which falls the Food and Drug Administration; ​

    When millions lose their health care because Donald Trump has abolished the Affordable Care Act;
    When the old childhood scourges of  measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough,  tuberculosis, and most terrible of all, polio,

...return to the population of American children because Donald Trump put an elderly  anti-science vaccine denier in charge of our nation's health policy;

   When American tourists aren't welcome in other countries because Donald Trump has made Americans the most despised people on the planet; ​

   When, between threats to seize the Panama Canal and Greenland and Trump's international bullying, our country has not an ally to stand with us should we be in need;
    When the bitter harvest is reaped from what Trump's misadministration has sown, then the hardship that rains down will fall on those who voted for and supported Donald Trump as well as those of us who opposed him.
         And then at last we'll be a united nation. At least in our misfortune.

​References:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/paul-krugman-sounds-alarm-donald-131621342.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-deportation-plan-effects-undocumented-farmers/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/29/usda-inspector-general-escorted-office-trump-white-house/78024513007/

https://www.foodprocessing.com/food-safety/regulatory-compliance/news/55263979/trump-fires-three-inspectors-with-oversight-on-food-agencies