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bijouxbroussard · F
Because she [i]is[/i]. Anyone who would work to establish affordable healthcare and education for people other than the 1% is interested in [b]progress[/b]. Especially after Trump and the GOP scuttled the ACA with [b]nothing[/b] to replace it. [b]They[/b] clearly couldn’t care less.
Abstraction · 61-69, M
@bijouxbroussard The American dream of rising from the poor to make good was a gift to the world. People claim to believe in it, but vote for people who make it harder to achieve. Statistically though, today it's harder to achieve in America than many, many other wealthy places - partly around issues that you've highlighted here. That's really disappointing.
bijouxbroussard · F
@Abstraction Since the advent of the Tea Party (ironically they call themselves the Freedom Party now, while infringing on others’ freedoms), the quest for education, like most everything here has been priced out of many people’s reach. My brother and I made a pact when our niece was born that we would put funds aside towards her college education. She was accepted at Stanford this fall. Her grades won her a scholarship, but it doesn’t pay for everything. So my brother and I have been helping where needed.
Warren has spoken about school loan relief so that people needn’t come out of school in debt for the next 30-40 years of their lives. The GOP has people who are [b]not[/b] rich arguing points they couldn’t possibly believe. It goes back to when Obama said, “Everyone who wants to attend college should be able to go.” Who could possibly argue with that ? Yet Rick Santorum, who holds two college degrees and is likely making certain that all [b]his[/b] kids go, dismissed the statement as Obama being “elitist”.
Seriously ? I don’t see how we’re supposed to recover from the kind of partisan divisiveness that Trump has continued to encourage and exploit since he’s been in office.
Warren has spoken about school loan relief so that people needn’t come out of school in debt for the next 30-40 years of their lives. The GOP has people who are [b]not[/b] rich arguing points they couldn’t possibly believe. It goes back to when Obama said, “Everyone who wants to attend college should be able to go.” Who could possibly argue with that ? Yet Rick Santorum, who holds two college degrees and is likely making certain that all [b]his[/b] kids go, dismissed the statement as Obama being “elitist”.
Seriously ? I don’t see how we’re supposed to recover from the kind of partisan divisiveness that Trump has continued to encourage and exploit since he’s been in office.
Abstraction · 61-69, M
@bijouxbroussard Written a decade ago: “The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda”
― Joe Bageant, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War.
Australia's not much better. Facebook posts everywhere blaming the 'greens' for bushfires. Claiming they stopped backburning, which is nonsensical fiction. The greens party has a strong policy on fuel reduction, etc - and aren't in power anyway. Point out the facts and be ignored. People want to hate. I'm dismayed. We're tribal, primitive.
― Joe Bageant, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War.
Australia's not much better. Facebook posts everywhere blaming the 'greens' for bushfires. Claiming they stopped backburning, which is nonsensical fiction. The greens party has a strong policy on fuel reduction, etc - and aren't in power anyway. Point out the facts and be ignored. People want to hate. I'm dismayed. We're tribal, primitive.