Let's face it. Special interests have corrupted many in the republican party into doing their bidding. Their "bidding" means (among other things) no compromise is allowed no matter what is at issue.
I am truly alarmed by all that is going on in our federal govt. Every bit of what republicans are doing hurts ordinary Americans badly. Here is a partial list:
1.Take healthcare away from over 30 million people.
2.Take voting rights away from those who usually vote for democrats by aggressive gerrymandering.
3. Install judges and justices that tend to always vote pro-business,
4. Get rid of all EPA regulations that can reduce the profits of big businesses. Then, people (and children) who get sick from all the toxins they are exposed to can't afford to get medical care because they can’t afford it. Even for their children.
5. Get rid of all regulations affecting Wall Street as a constraint on robbing ordinary Americans of their life savings.
6. Get rid of the fiduciary rule so investment advisers can easily take advantage of unsophisticated investors, but since there is no fiduciary rule investors who were fleeced have pretty much no legal recourse.
7. Allow pharmaceutical manufacturers that receive billions of our tax dollars annually in the form of subsidies to hike up the prices for medications to 10, 20, 50 or even 100 times what it costs to manufacture and package them. When we attempt to rein in those costs to consumers they scream about how expensive it is to research and develop new medications. The problem with that is that's why they already get large annual subsidies… meant to defray those costs. And no, there is no legitimate excuse that justifies their egregious mark ups in the price of meds, especially when those meds have already been in use for decades.
8. Defund public schools to make way for private schools that will serve to create a class system of sorts, where parents are forced to send their kids to whatever schools they can afford. This is a nifty way to create more divisiveness and inequality.
9. Allow usurious interest rates for student loans so that when people finish their education they have to spend decades paying off those loans instead of saving for their own children's’ education and for their retirement.
10. Maneuver a way to begin censoring what Americans can access on the internet by removing net neutrality. Then heavily criticize the main stream media by discrediting them. That way no one will know what is true and what isn't true, giving the party and president in power total control over the “message."
11. Failure to realize that climate change IS actually the harbinger of doom because Trump and his supporters willfully and knowingly discredit it for their own purposes, which include, of course, raking in a lot of money.
As I said, this is a partial list of the many ways ordinary Americans are being taken advantage of and exploited right now. It doesn't have to be this way folks. It is this way because we allowed it.