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In reply to the discussion: The "extreme left" didn't give us Trump. The path to hell was paved by [View all]herding cats
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Sick from curable conditions.
People will lose their housing, their food safety net, and children will lose their quality of education.
Elderly will not have enough money to pay for their food and their healthcare. Choices will have to be made and one or the other will have to be skipped.
The rich will get much, much richer while the poor and working class struggle under the burden of the current administration.
Migrants will live in terror of deportation or not being allowed back into the country if they leave. Dreamers are being targeted and deported.
Our civil rights are being assaulted on multiple levels.
Our environment will be raped on multiple fronts by corporations. Species will quite possible cease to exist here in the United States under this administration.
Science is being defunded and openly ridiculed.
Voting rights are being assaulted.
All this in the first 48 days.
Forgive me if my "bottom line" isn't the same as yours. To me these things are not a "slice of bread" but the very grain the loaf was baked from. These are the core issues I care about which are now being dismantled.
I'll vote for a politician who can actually do something to preserve these items any day over a selfish act of not voting because I'm not 100% feeling validated. I'm smart enough to know my nose functions best when it's still attached to my face.