If the race is close, it will only be because people believed the lies and were too quick to apply labels. The Dems aren’t communists or baby killers, or weak. I’ll concede that they might favor some left-leaning social programs, but what’s wrong with helping people– helping them through tough times, helping them get on their feet, or providing a baseline of health care, or a bit of a financial safety net after retirement (it’s their money!)? The bootstraps mentality is overly romanticized.
Yes, people will take advantage of the system, but these aren’t the norm. Republican voters make assumptions, they embrace the mad ramblings of an extremely damaged and unhappy man, and they get their information from a highly biased “news” organization. They make rash generalizations, and buy into the fear-mongering.
They appear perfectly OK with calling the shots when it comes to bodily autonomy and deciding whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term—because the Bible tells them what to think. They must like the prospect of wielding that power, as ill-gotten and ill-conceived as that is.
If this race is close, well, it shouldn’t be close. At all. How is it possible to look at or listen to Donald Trump and the host of others clamoring for attention without wondering why they’re so angry? They’ve had years to convince Americans of a viable plan, to construct a platform, and the best they can do is leave it to the Heritage Foundation to come up with something that favors the white plantation owners and crumbles the bedrock we’ve been standing on since the late 18th century.
May the momentum from the DNC be sustained, and, come November, the voices of reason and compassion and a certain idealism take the country back—if this is the language people prefer to use when considering the stakes.
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