My nine-year old son at the breakfast table today asked, “Dad what rights did we lose today?”
Here’s my list. Please add yours in the comments below.
- Women's right to choose. Roe v Wade overturned.
- Planned Parenthood funding gone.
- Obamacare (ACA) — 20M+ people’s healthcare coverage GONE, including my family’s. Plus unleashing insurance industry gaming the system for profits, junk plans, denials. Pre-existing condition coverage?
- EPA dismantled or gone.
- Department of Education dismantled or gone. Public education dismantled/privatized, teachers unions broken, religious home charter schools supported.
- Federal student loans re-privatized, Federal grants gone.
- Unions replaced by Federal right to work law.
- Federal minimum wage gutted/gone. State/local minimum wage laws overridden.
- Freedom of the press protections gone, libel laws overturned. Journalists sued, wiretapped, jailed.
- Social Security privatized. The last of our country’s social wealth given to Wall Street.
- Medicare block granted out, reduced and given the private insurance companies.
- VA (world’s largest single-payer healthcare system) privatized and dismantled.
- Welfare programs eliminated, block granted out, gone.
- Freedom of religion “discrimination” rights imposed over LGBTQ, women, non-Christian religions.
- Climate change and clean energy initiatives GONE. Good luck earth/humanity.
Got more to add? Drop your list in the comments below...