If I could have a sensible conversation with a Republican voter, I would ask these simple questions:
Are you okay with the “repeal” of our hard-won health care system, depriving millions of access to affordable health insurance—including, perhaps, your own?
Are you okay with Republican plans to scuttle Medicare and Social Security benefits—including, perhaps, your own—in order to compensate for their tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans?
Are you okay with the promotion of fossil fuel production and consumption, at the risk of ravaging our fragile planet? Are you okay with disbelief in climate change? And the contempt for, and neglect of, renewable energy research and development?
Are you okay with America’s diminishing prestige and power in the world? With the alienation of traditional allies and the embrace of tyrants? With the surrender of American moral leadership?
Are you okay with a political party that seeks actively to suppress all evidence of malfeasance, and condones incompetence and corruption?
Are you okay with blind obedience to a President who fails to respond to a hostile attack on our country? Whose every action is rash and ill-considered? Who trashes his own judicial and intelligence leadership? Who indulges daily in petty smear and insult? Who dishonors his office—and us—in word and deed?
If the answer to each of those questions is Yes, if you're okay with all this, then I guess that, sadly, we have nothing to talk about.
If the answer is No, then I would invite you, with all respect for your traditional loyalties, to think about questioning your assumptions and changing your voting habits. It just makes better sense to cast a vote for Democratic candidates in November.
Here in CA 48, that's a vote for Harley Rouda! Please DONATE to the campaign.
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