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In reply to the discussion: So. I made an enemy this week. [View all]PatrickforB
(14,604 posts)and be a bit more honest with himself. Because we sure as heck are a whole lot better off now than we were four years ago. Thankfully, we never had to wipe with coffee filters like that one meme (yuck!), but I remember the empty shelves, the fear, people dying, horror stories about intubation.
Nope, this country is MUCH, MUCH, an order of magnitude better now, under Biden.
And think a minute about freedom. What does that even mean? Free to get effed over by employers in a 'right to work' state? Free to die out in the parking lot if you cannot pay for healthcare? Free to be buried under a mountain of student debt?
OK, that's freedom to...what about freedom from? Freedom from...what? Old white Christian guys taking over your uterus? Oh, wait...that's the Republicans. Freedom from being around people who are different because Trump will round them up and put them in camps? Freedom from the bother of voting ever again? Freedom from clean air, clean water? Freedom from biodiversity? Freedom from peace after Putin conquers Ukraine and invades Poland? Because he will...
I guess I'm confused about how Republicans are going to make anything better for anybody but a few billionaire greed-lizards. Despicable party of treason if you ask me.