Domestic violence murder rates are at an all time high, but advocates are concerned they may not be able to keep providing the services communities depend on due to major funding issues.
I think this is a symptom of people losing their sense of cause and effect over political talking points. A shelter rightfully speaks out against power, as it should, but because of culture war nonsense they get upset and start defunding important things. Then they don’t understand why it’s struggling financially and the community is worse off.
We’re also seeing similar things with libraries, where parents want to ban books for everyone because their “objectional content” is located in the adults section and their kid might be where they shouldn’t. The libraries get defunded, close, and then the conservatives get shocked that something important to the community is closing.
I think this is a symptom of people losing their sense of cause and effect over political talking points. A shelter rightfully speaks out against power, as it should, but because of culture war nonsense they get upset and start defunding important things. Then they don’t understand why it’s struggling financially and the community is worse off.
We’re also seeing similar things with libraries, where parents want to ban books for everyone because their “objectional content” is located in the adults section and their kid might be where they shouldn’t. The libraries get defunded, close, and then the conservatives get shocked that something important to the community is closing.