Fighting For Food Stamps

UNLESS I'M DREAMING, and surely to God I am, and if I aint, I wish I were, Donald J. Trump has filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court asking SCOTUS reverse an appellette court ruling that he, Trump, the U.S. government must pay S.N.A.P.food stamp benefits for November, despite the government shutdown. Trump wants the SCOTUS to rule, in effect, that millions of Americans should go hungry,instead of using other funds to pay the bill, as some states have already done. Why on Earth would anybody, including Trump and most Republican members of Congress, and probably most MAGA members, want millions of Americans to go hungry? Finally the answer came: because food stamps was and is a Democrat idea, a Democrat program. Similarly, the government shut down itself is nothing other than an argument whether to cut Medicaid and subsidies for Obamacare. You can probably figure out for yourself which side wants to do what. (Hint: Republicans hate "socialism"). Why on Earth anybody would want to cut Medicaid and Obamacare is nearly beyond comprehension. Same reason the people want to cut Medicare and Social Security, presumably. They don't like socialism, don't like paying taxes to help people who won't help themselves, blah blah. If millions of Americans are adversely impacted by reductions in Medicaid or S.N.A.P. or other programs, a fairly high percentage of those affected will be Republicans, Trump supporters. The longer people are deprivied, the more they will come to realize who is responsible for it, and the more attempts by Trump and the Republicans to shift the blame to Demorats will fall flat, as it already has, seemingly. A large majority of the American people properly blame Trump and the Republicans for the congressional impasse and government shutdown. The recent eletions, which resulted in an unmistakable blue wave for the Democrats, clearly indicate that Trump and the Republicans are in trouble, with low approval ratings. Supporting government assistance programs would seem to be a far more effective political strategy than attacking them, one would think, considering the sheer number of potential voters who benefit from them. Trump's crazy policies,policies such as imposing excessive, ridiculous, donomically disastrous tarifffs on everybody ad everything, and dropping bombs on boats in the Caribbean, are being brought to a standstill by both the courts and the legislative branch. There appear to beindications that the Supreme Court does not like Trump's tariffs, and will tell us that Congress should be in charge of tariffs. In the U.S. Senate, there is a strong bipartisan movement to force Trump to stop the boat bombing, as once again he is usurping a power which, according to the constitution, belongs exclusively to Congress. The mare fact that Congress, for the first time within recorded history, is actually standing up to Trump, or starting to, and pushing against the fascist president in his stealing cngressional power. As public opinion keeps turning against Trump et al, you would expect the Republicans to back off all this cutting funding for programs which help people, while simultaneously enacting massive tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. There is a limit to the extent to which we the American people will tolerate teh nation's prosperity being swept up by an elite super wealthy few, while tens of millions languish in poverty or near poverty. For the moment we must rely on public opinion, the courts, and the legislatures to stem the tide of Trumpist fascism, hoping to survive long enough to get to the midterm elections, where we the people, god willing, will end the insanity, once and for all.