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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

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp speaks to the media during a press conference at the Georgia State Capitol on April 27, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images

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…