We are not going back:
• To a time when only white men ran our country.
• To a time when women had no control over what happened to our own bodies, as it has already become again in several states.
• To billionaires getting huge tax breaks while lower- and middle-class taxes go up.
• To a time when there was no Social Security or Medicare for the elderly or those with disabilities. These are not “entitlements,” since everyone pays into it while they are working.
• To a time when the only career for women was to stay home, keep their mouths shut, and produce one baby after another, even if they did not want to. (If you don’t believe me, listen to JD Vance some time.)
• To no protection for the environment or climate change. (Has anyone noticed the weird weather all over the country and the world in the last several years?)
• To a president whose children can make $650 million while they are “working” in the White House, not to mention the $2 billion coming in from Saudi Arabia when they’re done.
• To a president who sells ugly sneakers, t-shirts, weird hats, and Bibles to make money for himself.
• To a time before Jimmy Carter when there was no Department of Education, when there was no protection and advantage for all children.
• To when we had a president who admired strongmen autocrats like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Viktor Orban, and Xi Jinping.
• To a time when a president (who swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution) would send a violent mob to the U.S. Capitol to prevent the counting of ballots and threaten the life of his vice president.
And we are not going forward to a time when “Christians” will only have to vote this time, because when this candidate wins they will never have to vote again, either.
Kate Furness
Ely