I do as well. I know (or at least I used to know) that what I do helps the public rather than giving more money to some waste of oxygen on a yacht somewhere.
Early 30s. I've never agreed with the republican party, but it seemed to me that at one point they were at least trying to improve things, even if their ideas were stupid.
I don't hate the republican party. But the current party isn't the republican party. I disagreed with the republican party, which is different. The current iteration has people in charge who have literally no understanding or don't actually care how the government works and what is needed. They aren't reducing "waste", they are just using that as an excuse to try and get rid of anything they don't like or don't agree with. The sooner you start to understand that the better. Because you don't have enough understanding of what's actually going on to have a legitimate discussion about it. It's like someone who doesn't understand algebra trying to have a discussion about calculus.
It's causing fear and disruption throughout the "background" technical fields as well. Technicians and engineers are also very understaffed which makes responding to issues very difficult. Add to that a large part of the workforce being at retirement age and having issues trying to hire more and it's a big worry. Not saying things are dangerous just yet, but as time goes on and the new administration has more time to meddle it's more and more likely they will break something.
I knew skynet would crop up eventually