As usual, I still hate politics. I hate culture war bullshit. I despise the government in general. But, I’ve come to hate that shit even more (somehow) this semester, largely because I feel like the only sane human in a sea of insanity coming from all sides of the political world. 

Since the right wing’s comfortably in charge of the government, I’ll pick on them first. 

Trump’s been gutting university funding like it’s a trout ever since he got into office (which was exactly 24 hours before I stepped foot on campus as a student for the first time). Apparently, he claimed it was because universities were “dangerously woke” and putting millions of dollars towards “transgender mice”. 

While it’s true that roughly $8,000,000 were put towards what Trump called “transgender mice”, not only would I argue those are reasonable medical studies to conduct given how many adults identify as transgender (roughly 1% of the population, or 2.3 million adults). But it’s sure as hell not an excuse to take an ICBM to lifesaving science research. Y’know, the very research that has enabled me to go to university in the first place. 

On top of that, the Trump administration’s set its sights on University of Colorado, Colorado Springs for apparent “racial discrimination”. A couple years back, CU Denver was accused of being discriminatory against white and asian students by the Equal Protection Project, which is a conservative law firm. And that complaint is still active according to their website. 

That said, I’m not at all surprised by the republicans’ actions against academia (or the government as a whole). I don’t commend it in any way, shape, or form, but I can see why Trump, and perhaps the majority of voting Americans, may “have it out” for the universities and government institutions. University is just easier to go after than government, which is why they’re getting gutted like a trout first. 

The question is now, "Why is this happening?"