I don’t ever want to hear again about how both major parties in America are the same.
You will NEVER see headlines like these when it comes to Democrats:
Yep. The GOP is “giddy” about pricing people who earn $75,000/year and less out of being able to afford healthcare. Giddy.
Democrats led the charge on Dodd-Frank but guess what?
Democrats have stood the line on protecting gains women have made in being able to participate in society as equals. Democrats have also led the fight to keep making progress for women. Republicans?
You like free speech? Too bad.
Feel secure that marriage equality is here to stay? Big mistake.
Think we are going to continue making progress on criminal justice issues? Not hardly.
Worried about the militarization of US police? Too bad. It is going to get worse. Likely much worse.
Are you an hourly employee who qualifies for overtime? Sorry. Sucks to be you.
Have a hungry kid who depends on SNAP and/or school lunch for nutrition? Get that child a job if you want him/her to eat.
Does the death penalty make you feel sick? Get a barf bag because we are now a nation that mass executes on capricious whims.
I could go on and on.
Democrats and Republicans are NOT the same. The current GOP embraces cruelty, prejudice and greed as its top priorities. Democrats do not.
You might think Democrats aren’t radical enough in working for good. You might think they aren’t willing enough to take chances or are too willing to compromise. But those issues are not the same as being motivated by a desire to hurt others. And that is absolutely what motivates the modern GOP.
And don’t fool yourself that this is just for four years. What is being put in motion now will reverberate for decades. The futures being altered today are altered forever. That is just the way life works. We won’t go back to yesterday and there is ZERO guarantee that tomorrow will be better. Particularly now that we have given up the Supreme Court.
The only silver lining to all of this is that that all the MAGA folks who voted for the current crop of soulless ghouls are going to get hurt as much as the rest of us. They certainly didn’t think that is what they were pressing the lever for. They just wanted others to suffer. Too bad for them that once the type of cruelty we are seeing gets rolling, it doesn’t discriminate.