Did we really elect this group of leaders to make us sicker and hungrier and poorer, only to use our own money to create an unaccountable secret police that are killing people in custody?

ICE recently dragged a pregnant American citizen out of her car and across the pavement on her stomach, and she lost her baby.

The party that cares more for unborn

fetuses than any living child killed a baby in utero. For what? Optics?

Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.

So I am in my playroom because I'm at home and I recently took a break from making content

for a couple of days over the holidays, which is a big deal for a full-time content creator like me.

Those of us who follow the news don't really get breaks and it becomes incredibly

exhausting, a bit overwhelming, and with what our news is like these days, it's deeply depressing.

Should you also be a person whose life is based in morality, the whole world has become quite

demoralizing.

Because the bad guys are winning.

Lies are winning.

Predators are winning.

We spent years talking about the inappropriateness of Obama's tan suit.

But Trump comes in and bulldozes the east wing of the White House to the ground and we just move on.

We impeached Bill Clinton over a questionable but consensual relationship with a 20-year-old,

but we aren't impeaching our current president over child rape.

I am struggling to explain that to myself, let alone to other people.

And I'm having difficulty understanding how my fellow Americans are okay with our government

changing, say, the world order, with America realigning itself with Russia and Hungary

and North Korea, abandoning Europe, abandoning NATO.

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