This particular moment highlights something that I keep seeing. I harp a lot about how being a politician is a job and this is the perfect encapsulation of that message in a form that everyone can understand.
Is the Social Security Administration a disaster that's impossible to navigate? That's the job of the federal politicians you elect.
Are you frustrated that people are waiting in line at food banks and people who've lost their jobs and can't find other ones because of the pandemic aren't getting more assistance? That's the job of every single elected official that represents you.
Do you find the administration of your student loans to be Byzantine and designed to make you give up on ever getting student loan forgiveness? You should be asking what your federal representatives are doing about that.
In short, we need to be asking what our government can do for us all the time. And when it's not doing what we want it to do or doing it well, that's on the politicians.
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