re: #294 A Mom Anon

FFS.

So I’m watching Stephanie Ruhle this morning and there was a segment on undecided voters. They were in Atlanta interviewing three black women in their 30s. They were mad that Joe hasn’t apologized for the crime bill that was signed into law when they were in elementary school (he already apologized and said it was a mistake), that he hasn’t talked about income inequities in the black community (its on his damned website and he’s spoken about it recently a few times), and that Kamala did some terrible things when she was AG, locking people up for pot ,and she hasn’t apologized(google Kamala Harris AG Decisions and you get all wingnut websites in the first 10 links). They all said they would vote down ticket and leave the Presidential race blank if they didn’t see something addressing their CONCERNS before election day. I see this all the time online, “Joe hasn’t told us his plan for-insert concern here- and I can’t vote for someone who has no plan”. WHEN ITS ON THE DAMNED WEBSITE IN CLEAR LANGUAGE.

I’m not black. I have only been discriminated against for being a woman and while homeless in my teens (it was assumed I was a sex worker or an addict or deserved to be thrown out of my family). I have no idea what it feels like to have my community wrecked by racism and shitty policy decisions. But god damnit. If you are really that fucking short sighted, just stay the fuck home. Americans are fucking lazy as fuck. Most people honestly think that voting is the end of their civic duty and that one person in office can accomplish everything by themselves. Hence the “Joe was in office for 40 plus years, what did he get done?” Yes, all by themselves, a senator can just whip up any law they want and POOF! it’s magically over and done. I just am so done with this short sighted horseshit. We aren’t engaged as a nation politically, which is how we got Trump and allowed him to take the divides already there and blow them the fuck up into hatred and violence.

I swear, if I do manage to find a way to get onto the county school board, I am lobbying the fuck out of getting civics back into the school curriculum. This just annoys the living shit out of me if you haven’t guessed.

I think the ‘94 Crime Bill is one of the most mischaracterized legislations of the last 30 years and honestly I blame Sanders who voted for it for doing that with people under 30 and people who don’t understand policy. Was it perfect legislation? No, but it’s made out to be an intentional racially discriminatory law which is horseshit.