With the current administration no one can predict with any certainty what is going to happen. The pre election promises and proposals imply a concerted effort to clearcut segments of human supports and services. Remember what we learned after achieving the capacity to clear cut a forest. The consequences of forest clearcuts beyond a certain size and slope were devastating for decades. Clearcutting human policy is like taking out a human ecosystem on a steep slope. We live in a milieu of a century of old growth policy that still makes this wildly competitive nation livable. 

Floods, food chain imbalances, and destroyed fish habitat were a few of the many unforeseen consequences of early forest clear cutting. I can assure you, you don’t want to clear cut the human services policy of a nation in response to dodgy memes and catchy slogans. As a pruner with the future in mind, one has to know how to predict the impact of every branch cut. Disenfranchised human beings don’t fall through the cracks, but rather most survive by whatever means are at hand and we have far too many weapons at hand in this population.

Truth and Good are still close neighbors, but not convenient friends. Live your values from the ground level all the way up to and including public policy. If you think your religion supports the cruelty implied in some of the current policy proposals you are probably wrong; even though sometimes, short term, it feels convenient to embrace error and her minion of memes.