People care when their drinking water is contaminated with lead. They care if their medicines aren’t safe and effective, or if somebody takes all the money out of their investment accounts. Those things don’t make people happy. Yet it’s administrative agencies that are guarding against that and protecting their rights. So when the Supreme Court starts to dismantle important features of these agencies, it matters because it’s destabilizing a really important part of government
The darkly amusing part is that they’ve also expanded access to firearms and defended the second amendment in a lot of ways. It’s almost as if they’re asking us to solve the problem ourselves.
It may be useful to defend the 2nd amendment now, to galvanize a portion of the population. But when it’s no longer useful, they’ll clamp down hard on that too (just like Reagan did when the Black Panthers started arming themselves in the 80s)
My MAGA dad got pretty pissed off when I told him it’d be the Republicans who come to take his guns away.