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5 Non-Partisan Reasons to Vote Blue This Election
Protecting the American Way of Life has never been Easier or More Crucial.
We Americans up until a few years ago enjoyed a lot of privileges in the world. We had a stable democracy, a booming economy, arguably the best university and scientific institutions world-wide, and a passport accepted at just about every border. We could expect maybe not absurd wealth but that our work would be remunerated (except for millennials and younger, but we haven’t time to get into my job history right now), and we could trust our institutions to protect us and for the most part keep us from being targeted. We had freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of the press, and we could say whatever we wanted not without repercussions, but without government censorship.
America has never been perfect and a lot of the above comes with massive caveats particularly for underserved populations. But we weren’t a country where women at the border were forced to undergo hysterectomies against their will and without their consent. We didn’t — prior to 2017 — try to target whistle blowers whose only crime was calling out corruption and whether or not you’re a “war hawk,” or “peacenik,” we had some respect for our Armed Services.
