Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Are You Better Off Than You Were 4 Years Ago?

Tuesday, November 03, 2020

Are You Better Off Than You Were 4 Years Ago?

That is the question that President Reagan asked in 1980 when he was running for office and it needs to be asked again.

Today election day I am asking the question that President Reagan asked are you better off now or four years ago?

This administration has...

Stripped healthcare for trans people.
Has barred us from housing.
Has barred us from employment and they ignored the Supreme Court ruling giving us employment protection.
Has barred us from military service.

This administration has…

Politicized the Department of Justice making it his own personal attack dog.
Politicized the FBI.
Politicized the CDC and the COVID-19 virus.
Politicized FEMA.
Politicized the Supreme Court and the courts system with anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion judges.

This administration has…

Ignored environmental laws.
Ignored eminent domain laws and seized property for his border wall.
Fired Inspector Generals when they were investigating him.
Pardon convicted friends.

This administration has…

Has supported murders and white supremacist.
Has used federal police as a political weapon against Democratic mayors.
Has denied needed medical equipment to Democratic governors.
Has denied disaster relief to Democratic states and territories.

This administration has…

Has mocked the disabled.
Has called fallen military personnel "losers."
Has mocked Black Lives Matter.
Has mocked women’s rights.
Has mocked LGBTQ+ rights.

Trump has…

Lied,
And lied,
And lied,
And hidden vital COVID-19 information from the people

Is America better off than four years ago?

When you vote for Trump you are saying that you approve of all his lies and everything that he has done. And when you vote for Trump you are condoning my oppression and the other LGBTQ+ people's oppression.

1 comment:

Sue Richmond11/3/20, 11:19 AM
Hello Diana, as a foreigner looking at the USA these last 4 years I have only been able to cry at the malignancy and inhumanity of the current president. He's not a typical American and not a typical human, thankfully. Americans are better than that. For the sake of the world as a whole and humanity in general I hope you can change the guy in Washington. Good luck. Sue x
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers