(Sunflowers with clouds behind.)
It’s sort of sunny and at the very least, the Air & Water Show is behind us. The noise is really something else.
So is the concept, but I’ve talked about that a lot.
We’re back around to Monday, believe it or not, nearly in the middle of August, again, believe it or not. It feels like the year started five minutes ago but it goes and it goes and it goes.
Over the last couple of weeks, with media no longer harping on Pres. Biden’s age, we’ve finally been able to see, in stark relief, the difference between Democratic and republican policies, Democratic and republican agendas.
And it leaves me with a single question rattling around my brain, over and over, a superball with boundless energy: why would anyone vote for republicans?
The entire vision of republicans for the country, for everyone who isn’t them, is subjugation. Subjugation in all directions. For women, clearly, as they cry about “preserving life” and yet condemn people who get pregnant to death for getting pregnancy wrong. That’s not an exaggeration; they will leave women to die rather than to receive life-SAVING medical care.
Whose life does that preserve?
Because the embryo isn’t going to make it if the person supporting it with their entire body doesn’t. Nor is a fetus.
And it doesn’t end with abortion, but all women’s healthcare, including birth control and IVF. Republicans deign women as something subhuman, without full rights or autonomy.
Subjugation of people for practicing the wrong religion or no religion at all; subjugation of people for who they love, how they dress, if they don’t match a conventional assumption, for their gender.
Subjugation of people based on the melanin content of their skin; on their first language; on their ethnic group or even the assumption of their ethnic group; on their country of origin or their parents’.
Subjugation of workers through rollbacks of protections, of wage requirements, benefit requirements. Subjugation based on age, whether ending Medicare and Social Security or access to lunch at school or medicaid.
Subjugation of people due to health or ability, with their never-ending desire to break and remove the ACA, to return us to days of regular medical bankruptcies, to even worse lack of access to care.
Subjugation of people through rationing of education, refusing access and removing access to all but those they can trust to keep them in power.
Subjugation of consumers by removal of protections, tolling health and costs. We see it now with the flood of food recalls.
Even subjugation of veterans with the constant call to cut services and benefits for the very people who offer their actual lives for our country.
Just on and on and on and on. Every single policy is aimed to hurt Americans while making already obscenely wealthy people richer.
And then you contrast that with the pure joy of the Harris/Walz campaign, with policies that are nearly the perfect inverse of everything republicans want to do.
Not dark and gloomy and hopeless.
Bright and cheery and hopeful.
The world is ending only if we let republicans end it. Everyone can see it. Everyone.
And we’re not doing that.
Have a great Monday.
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