your life doesn't suck because
Your life probably doesn’t suck because your neighbor — the one who pays taxes, hustles to raise their kids, and heads to work before sunrise — doesn’t speak English. You don’t need to understand their words to see the truth: they’re doing exactly what you’re doing. They’re just trying to survive.
Your life doesn’t suck because two men want to marry each other or raise a child together. It doesn’t suck because the cashier handing you your venti, double-shot, oat-milk, caramel drizzle, three-pump, extra-foam macchiato has broad shoulders, big hands, pink fingernails, and hair so beautiful it deserves its own shampoo commercial. That cashier still showed up early, scrubbed the store so it would shine for you, and crafted your drink with a heart floating on top.
Your life doesn’t suck because a trans man used the men’s restroom. He went in, he came out, and somehow, the earth didn’t implode — it just kept turning, with or without you.
Your life doesn’t suck because a Black family moved into the house next door. Or because a Black woman is leading a boardroom. Or because a Black kid in a hoodie jogged through your neighborhood instead of walking. Those things aren’t harming you. They’re none of the reasons you’re tired, broke, worried, and feeling left behind.
It was never about pronouns being “too hard” to learn. It was never about needing to press one for English, or about teaching kids that it’s okay to be themselves, or about letting kids learn facts about biology, health, and human dignity. Fifty years ago, these were the same people screaming that interracial marriage and accepting blacks (and women) in to colleges, that allowing women to vote, or even give them a credit card without a man’s permission, would destroy America. It didn’t. It made it better. Twenty years ago, they said kids shouldn’t learn about evolution. They were wrong then, too. Every generation has been told to fear something new — and every generation that dared to open its heart made life richer for all of us.
Your life might be hard. That’s real. But it’s not because the guy walking beside you is wearing a rainbow T-shirt, or because someone said “they/them” when introducing themselves.
Your life is hard because your rent went up — again. Because your paycheck barely stretches from one end of the month to the other. Because groceries cost more, thanks to tariffs that sound tough but only make your shopping cart lighter. Because job security is slipping through your fingers like sand. Because healthcare is a luxury, not a right. Because corporations ship jobs overseas and your government gives them tax breaks for doing it. Because the only thing that’s trickled down to you is exhaustion.
And yes — someone’s life truly sucks today. A parent’s heart shattered because an angry teenager carried an assault weapon into a classroom. Another family lost everything when immigration agents knocked at dawn and deported someone who had lived here, worked here, paid taxes here for twenty years — sent back to a place where death or torture may await them, for nothing more than the color of their skin.
That pain is real. Deeply real. But it’s not caused by Black people, or gay people, or trans people, or immigrants or women. It’s caused by greed, by cruelty, by power-hungry leaders who thrive on division and fear.
When you see politicians like Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or AOC raising their voices, it’s easy to say, “I don’t like them — they’re always yelling.” But let’s be honest: politicians yell all the time — on both sides of the aisle. Yelling isn’t new, and it’s not the real issue. The real reason you might not like them is because of what they’re yelling about. Their anger isn’t random. It’s real. And it’s justified. They’re not screaming at the poor, the immigrant, the woman, or the vulnerable — they’re calling out the billionaires and corporations who rig the system, dodge taxes, crush wages, and buy bigger yachts while you scrape by. It’s not their raised voices that make you uncomfortable — it’s the uncomfortable truth they’re shouting.
If you ask me if I care about your pain, the answer is yes — absolutely. Completely. I want you to live with dignity, hope, and joy.
But here’s where we might part ways: I don’t blame people who are in the same boat as you, just rowing from a different side.
I blame the people who own the boat — and still kick others off into the sea.
I want better for you. I want to raise the minimum wage at the very least so that hard work actually leads to a decent life. I want good public schools that lift every kid up, no matter their zip code. I want apprenticeships and community colleges and training programs that open real paths to real careers. I want affordable healthcare so a broken bone or a sick child doesn’t mean financial ruin. I want food banks to help the starving, books to educate our children, truly free speech not selective, free speech, and due process. I want food prices to be stable, jobs to be local, medicines to be affordable, and housing to be attainable.
I want every single working person to have the same chance at success that generations before us dreamed of — no matter where they come from, who they love, what they look like, or what language they speak at home.
Because when we lift each other up — all of us — the whole country rises. As Franklin D. Roosevelt, in speeches about the New Deal, stressed: helping the least among us strengthened the nation as a whole. “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” I’ll remind us all that many conservatives in the 1930s strongly opposed FDR and the New Deal…
Conservative politicians have spent decades, and millions and millions of dollars, whipping you into a frenzy, making you afraid of immigrants, of poor people, of people who don’t look like you. They need you scared. They need you angry.
Because as long as you’re blaming your neighbor, you’re not blaming them — the ones shipping your job overseas, gutting your healthcare, raising your costs, and pocketing the profits. Fear is their favorite tool because it keeps you looking in the wrong direction while they keep taking everything that matters. They need you to believe that Marxism is every place – believe me, it isn’t. They wanted you to believe that Obama and Biden are socialists. Real socialists just laugh at that concept, just like everyone laughs at the lie that the January 6 insurrection happened because of Antifa. We all know who attacked our nations capital that day. 
All anger comes from fear. And you’ve been whipped into fear — fear of immigrants, fear of change, fear of your neighbors, fear of words you never heard growing up. They’ve kept you scared on purpose, because scared people are easier to control.
But the real threat isn’t coming from the people they tell you to fear. The real threat is coming from the ones who are scaring you — the ones who get richer, more powerful, and more untouchable every time you look the other way.
Hating our neighbors won’t heal your pain. Blaming the vulnerable won’t fix what’s broken.
But building something better together?
That just might.
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