Thread by @AmoneyResists

When I was younger, people oftened dismiss my political takes by saying “you just think that because your parents are Democrats.” While they certainly had an influence, my parents were all about letting my brother and I reach our own conclusions on things like religion & politics

This meant not only did I get to celebrate Christmas AND Hanukkah (until ultimately choosing Christmas solely on the basis that we generally got more than 8 gifts); I was given the chance to take a pretty impartial objective look at Democrats and Republicans from a very early age

The thing that stood out most to me from as far back as I can remember was how Democrats and left-leaning media outlets tried to tell the truth about most things; or at the very least answer the question they were asked; while Republicans & right-wing media did the exact opposite

I struggled so hard to understand how these two parties could possibly have relatively equal standing/representation across America when only one of them seemed to be actually interested in things like truth, logic, reason, science, and upholding their oaths to the Constitution

History/political science classes didn’t clarify this. I had to learn on my own how the @GOP manages to cling to power despite endless lies, unpopular policies, and losing the popular vote yet “winning” the Presidency twice since 2000 (which only happened 5 times IN U.S. history)

What I realized is that the @GOP abandoned any pretense of caring about representing Americans or upholding democracy/the Constitution generations ago. They cheat, lie, steal, bribe, manipulate & exploit people’s fears & prejudices because that’s their only way of keeping power.

Trump was in many ways the culmination of everything the @GOP had become: the epitome of greed, hypocrisy, treason, corruption, dishonesty, projection, propaganda, racism, misogyny, bigotry, & criminal disregard for truth, decency, morality, the Constitutuon, and democracy.

Even with him out of office and Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress, we are struggling to get the most basic common sense legislation passed because Republicans oppose it. They aren’t interested in representing us. They don’t care about this country or it’s people.

They responded to their losses of these areas of government not by adapting their tyrannical unpopular racist anachronistic views; but by doubling down on them AND their tactics to prevent people from voting in every state that they control the legislature for across the country.

So just like with common safety precautions despite great progress with COVID vaccinations, we need to not only keep up but double down on our efforts to expand voting rights and dismantle the systems of inequality that have allowed the @GOP and white supremacy to maintain power.

This means fighting for the passage of H.R.1; the Equality Act; the John Lewis Voting Rights Act; the American Dream & Promise Act; the Paycheck Fairness Act; the Violence Against Women Act; the Raise the Wage Act; & speaking out against the pernicious lies & rhetoric of the @GOP