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From my friend Billy Taylor...
I, among so many others, are beyond tired of feeling a wasted desire to enlighten blithering goose-steppers in tRumpland. So, for reference in escalating encounters leading up to election day, I offer this...
1. Red states make up the majority of the states with the highest inflation, poverty, crime, divorce, suicide, maternal, infant and covid death rates. The majority of the states with the lowest numbers are blue.
2. Red states have the lowest minimum wages and union memberships. Blue states, the highest.
3. Red states pay the least in taxes and use the most in federal aid, they're the nanny states Republicans are always ranting about.
4. The only administrations to either balance the budget or reduce the deficit in the last 40 years are the Democrats.
5. Who thought of for profit healthcare? Republicans. How'd that turn out for us?
Democrats want universal, like the rest of the world.
6. Who made corporate donations free speech in our political system? Republicans and their "Citizens United".
7. Which party is responsible for all but one of the recessions in this country in the last seventy years? Republicans.
"Ten of the eleven U.S. recessions between 1953 and 2020 began under Republican presidents. Of these, the most statistically significant differences are in real GDP growth, unemployment rate change, stock market annual return, and job creation rate."
8. Which party led us into 2 Gulf wars? And moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, against warnings from around the world that it would cause violence in Gaza? Who's writing "finish them!" on bombs? Republicans.
9. Which party keeps talking about raising retirement age? Republicans.
Democrats want to finally make rich people pay into Social Security like 95% of the rest of us do.
10. And whose feckless leader was well documented friends with the biggest pedophile of our generation Epstein? Who's name is all over that list they just released?
Not to mention, there's only one party honoring our bedrock founding principles, the peaceful transition of power, separation of church and state, and our nation's motto, E Pluribus Unum, "Out of many, one".
I don't have to like or register with either party. But, it's blatantly obvious which party's policies lead to better outcomes for Americans. And you can't blame blue cities, because the blue states with better numbers have blue cities. Besides, states are our "laboratories of democracy", where our policies are tested, not cities. Red states given free reign to enact extreme ideologies of limited choices will always result in negative outcomes.
When you can't refute anything I've said and reply with the inevitable hyperbolic, insult laden rant, everyone will know what's what. Be careful what you wish for.
