Trump Embraces Pesticides, Promises Broken, No Surprises
The article notes Trump's shift from a supposed crackdown on dangerous pesticides to an embrace of them, aligning with agricultural industry interests. This isn't a unique phenomenon. The revolving door between regulatory bodies and the industries they're meant to regulate ensures such reversals are not anomalies, but features of the system. Environmental Protection Agency decisions, regardless of
administration, frequently face pressure from powerful agrochemical and fossil fuel lobbies, whose donations to political campaigns consistently outweigh public health or ecological concerns. (Funny how 'less red tape' almost always means 'more poisoning.') So, a promised crackdown becomes deregulation. What's next, a 'beautiful, clean' coal initiative? The pattern is less about any individual
politician and more about the systemic capture of policy by corporations. The 'will of the people,' it seems, needs far more lobbying muscle than abstract ideals like clean air or safe food. One might wonder who actually runs the country.