Have we lost the loving feeling?

2025 has illustrated that the incoming administration has lost all empathy for the citizens and the nation as a whole.

Empathy is not sympathy….

Empathy is shown in how much compassion and understanding we can give to another. ….while Sympathy is more of a feeling of pity for another.

Short and simple definitions.

The thugs in the GOP and now the lackeys in the new administration are illustrating the lack on empathy.

The following is an editorial printed in the The Week magazine.

Kindness is so over. Since Donald Trump re-entered the White House, it has become apparent that America is not simply moving past the excesses of progressivism — the compulsory stating of pronouns, the hawking of anti-racism books for babies, the pretending that “Emilia Pérez” is a good movie — but beyond the idea that it’s good to care for others at all.

On social media, people have rejoiced at the slashing of U.S. food aid and medicine for people suffering genocide and famine. “Frankly at this point out of f—s to give about Sudanese babies,” read one post that appeared on my X timeline. Vice President J.D. Vance has invoked medieval Catholic theology to justify the shuttering of borders to asylum seekers, saying we have a moral obligation to prioritize our nearest and dearest over strangers. Never mind that do-gooding parable of the Good Samaritan stuff.

Then there’s the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, who can barely contain his glee as he takes a scythe to federal funding for lifesaving biomedical research (“a rip-off!”) and foreign aid. Musk once told his biographer how his favorite video game had taught him the “life lesson” that “empathy is not an asset.” We’re now seeing what happens when that mantra becomes a governing philosophy.

https://theweek.com/politics/the-end-of-empathy

So far the efforts from DOGE is not sitting well with some Americans….

A whopping 49 percent of respondents said they disapproved of the “job that Elon Musk is doing within the federal government,” while only 34 approved. The degree of animosity shouldn’t be understated either, with 41 percent “strongly” disapproving, while only eight percent “somewhat” disapproved.

When asked about Musk shutting down “federal government programs that he decides are unnecessary,” 52 percent of all respondents disapproved, while only 26 percent approved.

But their feelings of approval or disapproval mean nothing to the power mad sycophants.

Americans use to have empathy for their fellow Americans….but those days are gone it is becoming ‘us against them’….and it is having a negative effect on our society….

We need to rediscover our empathy….it is as simple as that.

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