If you voted for plutocrats pushing business friendly trickle-down policies as your own prospects contracted, you were never America's forgotten people. You got what you asked for.

If you voted for white supremacists who stroked your racism organ as they suppressed your wages and denied you health care, you were never America's forgotten people . You got what you asked for.

If you voted for people who promised to build a wall and you are now trapped at home, you were never America's forgotten people. You got what you asked for.

If you voted for people who mouthed empty platitudes about freedom as they poisoned your air, soil, and water, you were never America's forgotten people. You got what you asked for.

If you voted against regulation and now the only drugs anyone around can afford are opioids, you were never America's forgotten people. You got what you asked for.

If you voted for NRA funded candidates and they stole your money for their private planes and luxury vacations, you were never America's forgotten people. You got what you asked for.

If you voted for candidates who crushed higher ed and now the only people qualified to maintain your infrastructure aren't in the US and can't or do not want to come here, you were never America's forgotten people. You got what you asked for.

If you voted for Congressmen who hollowed out agencies like the Postal Service and now your prescriptions are not arriving on time, you were never America's forgotten people. You got what you asked for.

If you voted for candidates who wanted to funnel all of your tax dollars into military budgets, an overgrown border police, and incarceration and you're wondering why YOU get so little from government, you were never America's forgotten people. You got what you asked for.