re: #15 The Vicious Babushka

Trump’s trade war has been an absolute disaster. He tries to claim that steel industry has benefited, and there’s no evidence to suggest that.

Everyone’s going to be paying more, if they aren’t already.

Heck, if you like Jack Daniels, you’ll be paying more because the company’s product has gotten slapped with tariffs essentially killing sales overseas so they’ll have to make it up with higher prices here.

We’re all paying for Trump’s idiocy. His supporters and fans continue cheering it all because they want to watch it all burn down.

That’s why this is the Resistance. Even though I’m here in NYC and happen to be white, I’m also a minority (Jewish) and feel empathy towards others - a trait that the GOP spectacularly lacks. They want to impose their views, especially their religious views on everyone else.

This vocal minority of people who back Trump are intent on imposing their views on the majority of the nation that believes in separation of church and state, and which sees access to birth control, health care, and the option to get abortion as a right that should be protected. The GOP sees this as something to reverse because it again provides control over women that they want back.

Things to rally around in defiance and defense of women and minorities? ERA. I think now more than ever this is critical. We’re seeing the GOP eroding rights across the board, and with Kennedy’s retirement, the GOP will shift the balance even further to the right in an attempt to roll back rights even further.

They’re gunning to prevent any kind of social program on the scale/scope of Medicare/Medicaid/Obamacare/SNAP, etc. from ever getting implemented again, despite fact that the Constitution explicitly indicates that Congress is required to provide for the general welfare of the nation - Art 1, Sec 8. That’s why we fight. That’s why we struggle.

We want to leave the nation better than we found it, and unfortunately there are too many people who think people who want to leave the nation better off are equated by the media or voters (who decide not to vote at all, protest vote, or cast ballot with the bigot) with those who seek to sabotage it or roll back decades of social progress.