The New F-Word

I am going to be a little hyperbolic here, so bear with me.

If there is one thing I regret about the current US administration, it would have to be overuse of the word "folks." If I never hear that word again, it will be too soon. It's used as if it gives the speaker the magical simultaneous ability to both flagrantly ignore his class in favor of the fake persona of a ranch-workin' cowboy as well as distract people from a real agenda of authoritarian transformation.

Somehow, I feel this word is the root of most, if not all, of what is currently very, very wrong with this country.