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Well, let me just say, I really wish trump hadn’t happened. I think the damage he’s done to our country, both domestically and abroad, will take years (if ever) to repair.
But I will say this, I am grateful that he’s exposed the “pro life”, “family values”, free market capitalists, and the “fiscal hawks” for the frauds that we all knew they were. We couldn’t have done it without he and the GOP!
The pro life movement was never about actually Protecting life. It was always about being anti-choice and putting women in their place. It’s why they never proposed anything that would’ve helped the baby or the mother (health care, education, etc).
We all knew “family values” was code against LGBT community. It has nothing to do with actually the family or having any set of moral values. After excusing Donald’s extra curricular activities and his administration’s cruelty towards immigrant children, Republicans have utterly lost the moral high ground.
We all knew that cries of “socialism” were mere excuses to prevent poor and POC from receiving equitable health care, education, and economic aid. After years of Donald’s handouts and trade wars, the entire “free market capitalism” fallacy has been Nakedly exposed. Republicans have no problem with crony capitalism. They only claim to be pro free market (but are really pro crony capitalism) when Democrats propose a fairer capitalism towards poor people and POC.
Finally, the fiscal hawks that were so loud under Obama have become silent under trump. Whether we were blowing up the deficit for tax cuts, farm handouts, out of control defense spending, etc those who cried loudest under Obama have been deathly silent. As this pandemic has raged, we’ve seen the necessity for a much stronger social safety net. As minorities have become the greatest casualty in this pandemic, I think the unfairness of our society has become apparent.
The true casualty of this pandemic won’t be the dead but if we don’t make the necessary changes needed for a better society and government.
* We need stronger safety nets and universal health care.
* We need better sick leave and fairer pay.
* We need greatest investment in research and better collaboration between countries.
* We need universal vote by mail. Not only for working people but in the case of a pandemic.
* We need better more connected communities and civic engagement. We need capitalism to work for people, not just for the president's buddies or the Senate Majority Leader's political donors.
* We need better religious leaders. You cannot be a good Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, etc and support Trump. He’s the most immoral leader we’ve ever seen. If your religion can’t stand up now against such gross immorality, then it’s really not a religion worth standing up for.
* We need the media to do better. Just today I saw on MSNBC The Mooch giving us his 2 cents about the virus. Why? What expertise does he have? Fox News is responsible for countless deaths and suffering due to its disinformation campaign.
* Finally, we need an executive that’s trustworthy, empathetic, and competent. I don’t want government to act as a business. I want it to act as more of a protectorate for our most vulnerable.
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