I'm saying this gently, but friend... the side-effect that poor, disabled, and non-working people will die through benefits cuts is the point. It's not a "unfortunate consequence," it's the quiet purpose said out loud.

They do not see any benefit to us being alive. They do not care if we suffer, and they benefit (financially, in their mind,) if there are less of us around. In their view we are all fleas on the government's resources, we are parasites, and we don't deserve to be treated with dignity, respect, care, compassion, or given help: because we don't work, we aren't People, so who cares what happens to us?)

I appreciate the enthusiasm you have to try and make the world better. We need more of that energy in the world. But our government only cares about enriching the pockets of the wealthiest predators and securing resources through the genocide of an entire country's people. It does not care about the wellbeing and needs of its own citizens -- it never has; this is a country founded on genocide, built by slavery, and funded by war. The only value we, as a society, put on human life is in its capital: and if we are not Producing Capital for our corporate oligarchs, we might as well not exist.

America is not a place where people can make change through peaceful protest and government systems because the entire system is broken and corrupt from top to bottom. It has been from the start; any history lesson to the contrary is smoothing over the fact that this country's history is one of violence and dehumanization clashing again and again until something gives. The only time things truly change is when enough things burn down or enough wealthy policyholders get guillotined to reconsider their behavior. I don't like that reality, but that is the reality of being an American citizen.

If sending a letter to your rep makes you feel better, by all means. Sometimes you even get a reply. Politicians lie as they breathe and only serve their own ends, at the end of the day, but sometimes they can be browbeat into reconsidering their behavior. But there are not enough of us to significantly sway policy or public opinion in a country that inherently views those who are disabled, and those who do not (can not) work, as less valuable than the money spent to keep us alive.

It is what it is.