Thread by @didikins4life

This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: 🇺🇸 Keeping Faith with Our Veterans and Military Families
🇺🇸Only one party believes that our force is stronger when we treat our service members, veterans, and their families with the dignity they’ve earned. 1/12

#Democrats believe that our force is stronger when it reflects the richness and diversity of American society, and when we treat our service members, veterans, and their families with the dignity they’ve earned. 2/12 #DemPartyPlatform #MilitaryFamilies

#Democrats will protect and enhance opportunities for anyone who can meet the standards to serve in combat roles, and we will fight the scourge of rape and sexual assault in our military, end retaliation and impunity, and take care of survivors. 3/12 #DemPartyPlatform

#Democrats will reverse the Trump Administration’s hateful transgender ban, discriminatory exclusions in military health care, and policies that stigmatize and discriminate against people living with HIV and AIDS 4/12 #DemPartyPlatform #DiverseMilitary #LGBTQIA

#Democrats will root out systemic racism from our military justice system, where black service members are twice as likely as white ones to face court-martial. 5/12 #DemPartyPlatform #Military

#Democrats will accelerate efforts to recruit and promote people of color in the officer corps. We believe that service members, veterans, and their spouses should never face deportation. 6/12 #DemPartyPlatform #StopDeportingVets

#Democrats will create a parole process for veterans deported by the Trump Administration to reunite them with their families and compatriots. And we believe anyone who has served honorably in our military has earned a path to citizenship prior to discharge or retirement. 7/12

#Democrats believe that the world’s best fighting force and its veterans deserve the world’s best health care. 8/12 #DemPartyPlatform #Military #healthcare

#Democrats will rebuild trust in, and accountability at, the #VA—not privatize it. 9/12 #DemPartyPlatform #healthcare #Military

#Democrats will modernize VA facilities & bolster funding to the VA as part of a nationwide infrastructure plan, expand eligibility for VA benefits so that all veterans can access the VA, & work with Congress to eliminate VA co-pays for preventive health care for veterans. 10/12

#Democrats will ensure that VA benefits address the full needs of our women veterans, including reproductive services, 11/12
#DemPartyPlatform #WomenInTheMilitary #VA #healthcare

#Democrats will ensure that every veteran receives comprehensive and culturally competent care and benefits regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender identity, or sexual orientation, and eliminate transgender
exclusions. 12/12 #DemPartyPlatform #Veterans #healthcare