Are you organized in real life? In addition to its necessity for getting anything done and for studying correctly, it’s very grounding to work with real people on real problems, and it’s calming to see even small wins. Rage is a natural reaction when you have nowhere to direct your feelings and are focused more on hatred for the capitalist class than on love for the people, but when you’re channeling your feelings properly into productive action, rage fades.
Yet again, the thing that the right has been fearmongering about for decades is being done by the right.
One frustrating thing about this is that disabled people do need job support, but this is rarely what’s actually needed. I’ve been disabled for 20 years; I don’t need some job coach at my doctor to give me advice about it. I need workplaces to be accessible and for accommodations to be mandatory and enforced, and I need not to be discriminated against or treated like a child just for being disabled and not to be socially ostracized. Even better would be a guaranteed job and a trained person to help place me where my skills, education, interests, and access needs best fit.
If they actually wanted disabled people to work more, they could use this money elsewhere a lot more effectively, but I guess getting to that conclusion would force them to question too much about how capitalism creates ableism and what it would take to treat disabled people as equals in the workforce.
Federal Medicaid funding and ACA subsidies are at stake, and it would have long-term impacts. The healthcare cuts were already passed months ago and are about to go into effect, so many people have been waiting hoping something will change because they don’t know how they’ll get insurance for January. Hopefully the democrats see that this is deeply unpopular and stick with it for once to secure funding in time.
There are great news sources out there to get this information with a socialist analysis. This video starts talking about the shutdown at 1:10:00 and explains it in an accessible way. https://www.youtube.com/live/lmEO_YaPMro
Public healthcare is only a failure in capitalist countries for this reason. Without changing the social order, publicly funded healthcare is just a temporary concession to the working class, and when they take concessions away, they always tell us they was bad for us all along and that our suffering when they end is proof of that.