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I am so tired of reading and writing about Trump and his MAGA world. I am so sick of turning on the TV only to see the latest rumor being treated as ‘serious news’ such as the recent distraction using Hunter BIDEN. I am so sick of MAGA hate being turned into laws that dehumanize those who do not fit their idea of what a human is. 

I am so sick of billionaires using the system to get what they want as the vast majority of Americans see their lifestyles diminished as corporations raise prices without challenge, collude with their ‘competitors’ and form quasi-monopolies as they thumb their noses at regulators all with the blessing of MAGAs. 

I am also sick that we almost never anymore speak of our ideals and hopes, but instead have a media almost totally focused on the worst in our country.

Democrats remain the repository of the dreams and hopes of the vast majority of Americans of all colors and faiths or non-faiths. Among the most important aspect of Democratic policy is to keep and strengthen the democracy in which we live. MAGA policy as spoken by Paul Weyrich, the founder of the Heritage Foundation, so long ago is to choke voting.

So before I go off into a long rant on how bad the MAGA Party is, let’s just remind ourselves what policies that Democrats are still working for for Americans. While I do not want this to turn into a list, that may be hard to avoid. And by no means is it comprehensive, just a reminder of how good Democratic policies are and to take the focus off the clown show of the far right MAGA world:

• The most important is the environment. Climate change is now the ultimate overriding issue on everything. It is no good having great policies if people are dying in huge numbers because we have not taken to huge steps we need to at least stop the current runaway climate crisis.

• Behind that is health care for everyone from cradle to grave. Enough with the bullshit that health care is “communist” or “socialist.” It isn’t. It is simply people banding together to take care of each other. That was the basis of this country’s founding. Health care is simply another expression of that founding principle. 

      Note that we are the only major country without national health care. Note also that we now pay WAY more than any other country and still have many people not covered, or who do not get dental, eye or old age coverage. 

        Enough with the hodge-lodge jumble of government programs and insurances. Let us have one comprehensive plan that covers it all like other major countries.

• Education – Hey, if small countries can educate their populace without putting them deeply in debt forever then I bet we can also. Education investment will pay for itself many times over. We will also need it as problems become more complex and we won’t be able to try to solve these problems with a prayer book.

• Good pay, good benefits and respectful hall workers. All workers should be represented by some form of a union.

• Comprehensive immigration policy coupled with a sane foreign policy.

• All humans should be treated as humans with equal rights. Not all of us are the same but we all should have the same rights no matter our race, religion or gender identification.

• Women must be able to control their own bodies and health care.

Just a reminder that there is a party in this country that believes in its citizens and believes that we can achieve to goal of humans having basic rights accorded to all. 

The political life of this country should be focused on the good of the commons and survival of the living and should not be a game of gotcha and what group can be screwed over the worst.