"Thoughts and Prayers"
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All I see above is who wants to make the country safer for all who live here? The President's highest priority is to keep the American people safe. He is committed to ensuring the United States is true to our values and ideals while also protecting the American people.
That includes protecting their health and safety from deadly pandemics and a lack of access to health care. That's what our party does. You calling it control is laughably obtuse and paranoid.
On the other hand, what party started the Family Values fight - code for an imagined 1950’s TV-style Christian morality when people didn’t cheat on spouses, when no one was gay, and when certain people knew their place — and knew better not to challenge canonical hierarchies. This crusade of “rightness” leaves no wiggle room for nuance or differing opinions, for it is absolute. The nation must capitulate to the most just among us, as defined by the most just within the movement. The political power they have wielded is harsh and oppressive but you shall obey.
Fast forward to today and we have "freedom fighters" who say "don't tread on me" which is code for "no more rules for me." Their opinions matter more than scientists, politicians or people dying in hospital beds because of their stupidity. Historically, America would rally to defend itself. Personal safety would be sacred. Loving thy neighbor would be second nature. Not with today's Republicans - on no, their freedom should come at the expense of your safety for they are warriors for liberty and you're just in the way.
In reality, the Republican agenda centers on taking away freedom.
- They’re chipping away your freedom to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family by passing
ever more restrictive abortion bans.
- They’re chipping away the freedom to discuss sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom.
- Many are chipping away students’ freedom to learn about America’s history of racism and discrimination.
- They're chipping away at your right to read what you want
- They’re also chipping away at the most fundamental freedom of all - the right to vote –
restricting everything from mail-in voting to ballot dropboxes.
As long as people like you insist on forcing this form of freedom down our throats, we'll never truly be free.
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.
Basically you're saying the President is responsible for the safety of the American people, right? So that means he should see that the laws of our nation are followed? And as Commander-In-Chief of the armed forces, he should see to our foreign policy with the advise and consent of the Senate? And he also should see to the protection of our people by defending our borders perhaps?
Yeah, we're not doing too well there, are we? In fact, when is the last President that did these things? Been a while I would say.
The things you mentioned above aren't really freedoms in the sense you stated them. Look, Roe v. Wade has been known to be a poorly decided case for decades. Even liberal justices would concur with that sentiment and have on many occasions. There was ample time and opportunity to codify abortion into law but it was never taken. Let's not act like this is some sudden development. Also, the technology and science available to us now brings into question so many things the were foundational to the original decision in the first place.
Secondly, it's not like babies just randomly spawn in women. You have to make a series of decisions to get pregnant. The right to choose is present through 100% of those steps for 99.999999% of the instances in question.
As for the gender stuff, there's no freedom to discuss those things with my kids in any classroom. I can handle that. The schools have no role whatsoever in that and the whole process of sexual education has been a poorly conceived and executed debacle from the outset. Not the job of the government.
You can read anything you like. And also, let's not ignore that both sides have made determinations as to what is OK to read and what isn't. This isn't a one-way thing. I'm sure you know that but you seem to have forgotten about that. Also, why don't you list the books at the center of the controversy and we can talk about them. I doubt you'll like to debate the merits of those books. Nevertheless, I am not for them being censored. I am 100% against them being taught to my kids without my consent.
Voting is one of our most fundamental rights. You are 100% correct there. And as such, great care should be taken to protect the integrity of the vote. After all, an illegally cast ballot cancels out your vote or my vote. Each vote that is not cast legally cancels out a legitimate vote. So we should make sure that our elections are secure and safe. After all, since 2000, we've questioned every election held and undermined the integrity of the vote over and over again. This isn't a partisan thing. Both sides have participated and not really equally if you actually want to review the history. Given that you are so absolutely correct, we should be doing everything imaginable to make sure voting is secure and the integrity of elections is as high as possible.
I don't want to force anything on you. You're welcome to have children when you want, read what you want, marry who you want, live with who you want and vote legally. That sounds like a pretty good deal to me. Except when you twist everything to serve an agenda you think is best for everyone and force kids to learn things that just aren't reality or are against the wishes of their parents. We do pay for the schools you know?
Hahaha, I'm in Charlotte with them now
But thanks for your concern
Happy Thanksgiving!
Bump for the 39 mass shootings we’ve had in America so far in January!
It's honestly beyond ridiculous. I hunt. I have guns. Please though someone tell me how we are going to fix this without restrictions to ARs. I simply don't see a way. People are going to keep doing this if we don't change the access.
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Yah. The current republican platform is to just obstruct government in whatever way is possible. I don't want to paint with too broad a brush but I've seen a lot of our quality of life go down in this country due to straight up defrauding the citizens with bad faith governance on their part.
Education for example is known to be completely underfunded. The great republican plan was no child left behind which defunds poor performing schools.... they revealed their true intentions with Betsy Devos. They plan to underfund Education and get people to hate it so they can privatize it for profit and propaganda. Weirdos also want to indoctrinate the youth and can't do so directly with government money as it's against the constitution
It's effectively stealing our tax dollars.
Anyway the mental health issues in this country are related to our health care, education and social services which are brutally under funded. Obviously republicans are not going to fund programs properly. They want to privatize them.
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GOP: Let's render the government dysfunctional and then point and say I told you so.
