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Incompetent Governors Are Jeopardizing Our Mental Health
The leadership has been failing, and my nerves are on edge because of it
Living with heinous governance at both the federal and state level is utterly and completely exhausting. Residents in most Republican-controlled states bear the brunt of a sadistic double whammy. We deal with President Donald Trump’s asinine rants, blatant lies, and reckless policies and then endure the same from our own governors. Every day brings a flurry of contradictions and rampant chaos. Attempting to navigate this is like trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube in a blackout.
In this era of monstrous federal corruption, state governments have played an outsized role in every arena of governance, especially in the response to Covid-19, which has led to the deaths of more than 90,000 people in our country, as well as in voting issues leading up to the most crucial presidential election in U.S. history.
Take where I live, in Georgia: The Georgia Department of Health, which tracks Covid-19 cases, recently released a faulty graph where the dates along the x-axis were not in chronological order. Anyone reading it would conclude that Georgia’s Covid-19 cases were declining. Conveniently, this fictitious downward trend supported Gov. Brian Kemp’s decision to reopen the state on April 24. When the graph came under fire, the Department of Health apologized and corrected it immediately. But the fact that the misleading graph was released at all speaks volumes to the kind of misinformation Georgians receive.
Elections this year are just as much of a dumpster fire. Despite evidence that virtually no voter fraud exists in the state, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger launched an Absentee Ballot Fraud task force. The real purpose, of course, is to intimidate voters. The governor also canceled an election scheduled for May 19 for a state supreme court justice so that he could appoint another Republican to the bench.
It’s been a month since my husband, my daughter, and I emailed applications requesting absentee ballots for the June 9 Georgia primary. We still haven’t received them and are now considering voting in-person during a pandemic. What’s more, I learned earlier this week that…
