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This is a screenshot of a bluesky post from “The Tennessee Holler” posted 12 hours ago. The post reads: “If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?” The post includes a repost from Joe G posted 2 hours ago that says “Arresting people in wheelchairs protesting Medicaid cuts.” Below the text is a video thumbnail showing what appears to be law enforcement officers restraining an elderly person in a wheelchair in what looks like a government building or office setting.
The perception, real or not, of uneven attention from the government is more than enough to keep the feedback loop going.
Universal programs are typically the best shot at breaking through that stasis. And that's, well, acting in the public interest: the anathema of American politics.