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Buyer's remorse

| April 10, 2025 12:00 AM

With almost 50% of the popular vote and many promises made, people hoped that 47 would be different from 45 and that all Americans’ lives would be improved. Not so, prompting widespread buyer’s remorse.

The turmoil, chaos and indiscriminate, erratic behaviors of this regime such as massive chainsaw firings have instead, upturned tens of thousands of lives and created massive discord in the name of saving money — to give to whom?

Threats, insults and executive mandates instead of true negotiations and governing have alienated neighbors and allies, assaulted global order, dismissed protections for consumers and global sustenance and exalted prejudice. Congress has ceded its responsibilities and our three branch system of checks and balances seems to have collapsed into a singular topdown voice. And, where are the elected officials, state and national, who took an oath, and did actually place their hands upon the Bible, to protect our Constitution and meaningfully represent their constituents, the people, you and me?

Most painful, heartbreaking and soul shattering for me is the complete denigration of anything deemed woke or DEI. I was raised Christian and continue to live by that internalized creed and ardently view Christ as the most woke, DEI persona imaginable.

Are you better off then you were eight week ago? It’s only been two months. What will be left of the U.S. after four years?

The clock is ticking, no screaming, louder and louder every day. Enough. Stop the carnage.

I don’t — I can’t — believe that I am alone in my disappointment and outrage. Say something, do something, please.

— Diane Edge, Bigfork