Why I am supporting Democratic ticket for President
[list not in any particular order]
*I want clean
air to breathe and water to drink for everyone.
Trumpites/MAGAites [TM] want to
deregulate industries and allow pollution of air and water.
*I want science
and facts to be used in making decisions.
*I want public
lands to be kept public and developed in a minimal way for everyone to be able
to enjoy nature.
TM want to sell land for profit and
develop without regard to nature.
*I want elected
officials to be stable, healthy – mentally, emotionally, and physically. I want
some happy, laughing, loving, positive people as our president. I want people
to be respected.
Evidence is pretty clear that 45 is a
narcissist and not healthy. He wants power for himself. He doesn't care about
people. He does not smile or laugh. He mocks people. He scowls. He is angry. He
is hateful.
*I want the whole
USA Constitution and laws & regulations to be protected and upheld, no one
is above the law.
45 is a convicted felon. He has said
that he would be dictator on day one, one of few true things he has said. TM
want revenge and retribution against any who oppose them.
*I want the
Civil Service to be protected, jobs by merit and knowledge, not loyal to one
person.
TM want to replace current civil
service members with loyalists to 45.
*I want
democracy protected here and overseas. I want our allies to be democracies.
Stay in NATO and other mutual international organizations.
45 & TM follow and use dictators
as role models.
*I want assault
rifles to be illegal. I want national and interagency background checks and
wait period to buy a gun.
TM do not want any gun regulations.
*I want
abortion to be a decision between the mother, her faith, her doctor, and maybe
the father. It is a medical procedure best done safely and legally in
clinic/office/hospital setting. Doctors should not have to worry about
legalities with reproductive care of women. Women should not have to travel to
another state to get safe legal reproductive care.
TM want to make all abortions illegal.
They will not provide support during pregnancy or after birth, just interested
in the birth. They are willing to risk the life of mother in complicated
pregnancies by forcing birth. They are willing to force young teenage girls go
through a pregnancy and give birth and then abandon them.
If you do not want abortions to be
used for birth control, then provide low cost or free options -- birth control
pills, IUD – and sex education in schools since parents aren’t doing their job
at home. Best solution is to make vasectomies for all males capable of
reproduction mandatory until they are able to be responsible in all ways for
any child.
*I want
separation between church and state.
TM want to force everyone to be
Christians and specifically their type of Christians. They want laws to be
their specific Christian laws.
*I want all of
history taught in schools, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
TM want to whitewash history.
*I want public
education to be funded. I want teachers to teach.
TM want to do away with public
education.
*I want the
wealthy to be taxed to pay their share.
TM want to give wealthy people and
corporations tax breaks.
Reagan trickle-down economics hasn’t
worked. People and corporations are too greedy.
*I want the
money Congress has ‘borrowed’ from Social Security to be returned. I want SS
and MediCare to be funded.
TM wants to do away with Social
Security and MediCare – privatize it.
*I want every
eligible citizen to be able to vote easily. National holiday. Vote by mail.
Automatic voter registration.
TM are against voting by mail. They change
polling places to make it more difficult for people to vote.
*I want
immigration reform.
TM stopped a bipartisan bill from
being passed so that immigration would remain an election issue.
*I want
Congress to work together to put country above party and their own special
interests. To have honest debates.
TM want retribution against anyone who
opposes them not matter the issue no matter what is good for country, just
anger and hate.
*I want taxes to pay for NPR, PBS, and NEA (National Endowment for Arts).
TM wants to defund all these public art programs.
*I want my
taxes to go to NPR, PBS, NEA (National Endowment of Arts)
TM want to defund them.
Added 21 August
2024, not specific to H&W but local politics that could apply nationwide
and Democrats most likely do it:
*I want rent
stabilization, limit percentage rent can increase, for apartments and mobile
home/manufactured home parks.
*I want a limit
to how many individual homes one person or corporation can own in an area to
rent out. Limit how many can be short term vacation rentals, short term would
be less than two months.
*I want term
limits for Congress. Three maybe four terms for House of Representatives, so
six to eight years total. Two maybe three terms for Senate, so 12 to 18 years
total.
Haven’t decided about Supreme Court term
limits yet, maybe 20 years, and stagger the terms.
*I want any
law/ordinance, national/state/county/city, making it illegal to collect
rainwater repealed.
