What I voted for in the States

​We are not the same, and yeah, maybe you didn't know better, but you know now. 

I voted for Head Start, Housing for the Homeless, Mental Health Services and Training, School Aides for kids that are struggling or learn differently, Science, including cancer research, Health Care, Veterans Services (from long-term care to mental health, to vision and housing and transition to civilian life and more), Medicare and Medicaid, School Lunches and Breakfasts and Summer Feeding Programs, Food Pantries,  and Libraries, for Freedom of Religion that includes Freedom from Religion and a clear separation of Church and State, and for Veterans of every color to be acknowledged for their service, DEI which includes things like ramps for access, and brail, and street lights that make noise. I voted for the Forest Service to have the funds for preventive care, progressive care, and wildland fire emergency service, and for the EPA to have funding and standards that hold big polluters accountable, and for FEMA to take care of communities after devastation from wind, fire, and or flooding. For Social Security, the people have paid into it to be protected.  For our place as a Nation to have allies and to be the leader of the free world. For women to have rights to not only their bodies but also their death, and their lives.   I voted understanding that we have three coequal parts of Government the P, and Congress, and the Judicial, and the separation of powers, for due process under the Constitution, and I knew that meant every person on our soil is counted in that process under the Constitution, and more.  

But if you voted for trump, you voted against ALL OF THAT and more, you voted for Project 2025, you voted for someone who continues to lose again and again and again in court because he can't comprehend how executive orders really work, he can't comprehend how everyone has rights, and he put a known drug addict in charge of doge, who has found nothing substantial - if they had, they would be in court prosecuting.  We have lost as a Nation Allies, our place at the head of the table of the Free World, and we have lost our ranking of financial trust in the dollar. 

We are not the same,  we are not on the same page, we aren't even on the same bookshelf.  

And yes, ALL of the things I mentioned and many more have already been cut completely or in part. And all of the things I listed about the maga vote, yes all of those things have already happened, and it's only been about 200 days. 

It's pretty clear that if there is ANY ROAD AT ALL back for all of us in this country, it must include basic education on empathy, compassion, and forgiveness.  I still have my empathy, and compassion -- forgiveness as I continue to watch people suffer and die - I am not there yet.  

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