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usonian

(23,041 posts)
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 08:19 AM Jul 2024

The choice before voters is very clear.

I posted this on July 14. One word changed.
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I spell it out. Choose from column A or column B.

GOP agenda:
• A society that excludes and criminalizes necessary health care and personal sexual preferences.
• A society that warps the constitution to establish one religion and encourage violence against others.
• Americans pitted against each other along lines of race, color, religion, gender, sexuality, and income.
• Vilification of blacks, Jews, Muslims, lgbtq+ , homeless, and women of strength, encouraging violence against them.
• Destruction of public schools and the opportunity they provide to all, minorities included.
• Funding of private, religious schools to increase class division and unequal access and opportunity.
• Banning of books.
• Devastating climate change
• Leveling the Gaza waterfront to create a Hotel Strip
• A deadly all-out war on the rights of women.
• More welfare for the rich.
• Private health care companies replace medicare and deny needed treatments -- basically "death panels"
• Every civil right is eroded by clown judges living in the 18th century rewriting the constitution.
• Worker's rights and benefits reduced in order to create greater profits for businesses.
• Safety nets removed, so that homeless, and jobless people are left to die on the streets.
• More, more, more of culture war.
• GUNS, everywhere, with no limitations or requirements. Mob rule ( warms Putin's heart )
• Unbridled support of authoritarian regimes across the globe, who eagerly imprison, "re-educate", murder and commit atrocities on others.
• Lies, hate speech and threats are welcomed on "social media" and given support by government officials.
• Medical care and prescription drug costs skyrocket.
• Leadership by people with the lowest morals of all. Grafters and grifters.


KAMALA'S AGENDA (as I see it)
• Support of women's health care and sexual preferences.
• Separation of religion and state, and protection of minority rights.
• Americans of every race, color, religion, gender, sexuality, and income honored and treated fairly.
• The wealthy pay their damn fair share.
• Acceptance and embrace of blacks, Jews, Muslims, lgbtq+ , homeless, and women of strength.
• Zero tolerance of hate and violence.
• Strong action to reduce gun violence.
• Vigorous support of public schools and the opportunity they provide to all, minorities included.
• Getting private, religious schools off the dole.
• Slashing the divide in education, opportunity, internet access and access to the levers of power.
• Banning book bans!
• A local and global "Manhattan Project" to counter climate change
• Guaranteeing the rights of women.
• Support of Medicare, so that some day, we can have UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE, SINGLE PAYER.
• Taking profiteers of "Medicare Advantage" plans to task.
• Restoring the Supreme Court to one that serves all people, and it not a religious tribunal or den of thieves.
• Worker's rights and benefits increased and guaranteed.
• Safety nets bolstered for homeless, jobless, and other needy people.
• Holding social media accountable for calls to violence that they harbor or actively foster.
• Sensible gun control
• Putting authoritarian regimes across the globe on notice.
• A better society by POSITIVE EXAMPLE

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The choice before voters is very clear. (Original Post) usonian Jul 2024 OP
Proliferation of USA guns has ruined Latin America. Frasier Balzov Jul 2024 #1
That's interesting. Gun exporter to the world. usonian Jul 2024 #2

Frasier Balzov

(4,785 posts)
1. Proliferation of USA guns has ruined Latin America.
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 09:21 AM
Jul 2024

I'd like to emphasize the connection between gun production in the United States and the influx of desperate people fleeing their homelands.

Immigration due to guns. Hung around the necks of the Republicans.

Think this has any traction?

usonian

(23,041 posts)
2. That's interesting. Gun exporter to the world.
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 10:08 AM
Jul 2024

A creative team can make the case.
If they get beyond "polling"

I've been beating the drum lately, pissing people off, that polls ... here's a repost in part:

There's only one thing that the billion dollar computer models, the tech bros and money folks don't see.
PEOPLE

The will of strong and determined people who actually believe in truth, justice and the American way as exemplified by people like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, to rise above the ordinary, the expected and the banal to do extraordinary and magnificent things.

POLLS, even with their spooky, psychic, AI-driven (making them perfect beyond God) (1) powers, fail to see the unexpected, and people breaking barriers and rising above the ordinary and expected is what true progress is all about.

Now, that said/ranted, a graphic can easily portray your point.

GUNS EXPORTED,
VIOLENCE EXPLODES
PEOPLE FLEE

Send it to DNC, but I suspect that posting a graphic here (even if I have to create one) might catch the eyes of someone. In my web searches, DU pops to the top many times.

Thanks for the great idea.
Helpful if it succeeds.
Nothing lost if it flops.



(1) sarcasm for those slow to clear the cobwebs on an incredible Monday Morning.
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