New New Deal

And I think that what is oftentimes lost on all of us, and what is shifting right now in a lot of industries and in a lot of spaces is the power that workers have. Now. When this country was moving through its industrial age, we needed to create unions

and hr and different types of protections for workers. Because without these protections, without government intervention, without agencies that would look after the safety and the well being for workers, you have what is pretty much going on with Amazon around the country. You have people unable to take bathroom breaks.

There is right now a piece of legislation that is going through the California legislature to ensure that production numbers remain reasonable at the behemoths like Amazon, so that workers who are on the line putting together your packages, our packages that we so desperately need, can take a bathroom break.

It's crazy to me to think that in the twenty first century, after we have gone through so many different points of work, revolution and expansion in this country, that in so many ways we are going back to the beginning, whether it is with fucking abortion, whether it's with voter suppression.

But it seems like America's civil rights and liberties, and workers rights and liberties and women's rights and liberties are somehow boomeranging back to pre industrial times right where we are needing to make explicitly clear the protections that workers are guaranteed, the protections that women are guaranteed. And we have a very tepid government right now that is being run by Democrats who we gave power to, but not in large enough numbers that they're able to maneuver on

their own. Now, I say this though, that this problem, this juggernaut that we have right now that is happening in our government is not the people's problem. It is our politicians problem. It is Republicans problem, and the reality that Democrats do not show to the public that Republicans want to do nothing for Americans, right, that Republicans see Americans as the problem, and they see corporations as the savior to America. That government is not supposed to intervene.

Government is not supposed to make sure that you have bathroom breaks at work, that you are given healthcare, that you are have childcare, That that's not government's problem. That if you cannot afford those things on your own, well, then too bad, right, And that if you need to be worked above, well above forty hours a week, if you need to have multiple jobs so that you can put food on the table and take care of your kids, again, that is your problem. And what we are seeing with

another move being made by this administration. And again, you know, a part of me does not know whether or not the moves that are being made in terms of these behemoth pieces of legislation. Because here's the thing. What we also need to recognize is that we are living in a time not unlike when the New Deal was rolled out, right,

which was after wartime. Recognizing that we need to provide American families, American people, American workers right with the ability to fend for themselves, but that because there has been so much economic devastation due to COVID, due to mass layoffs, because there has been so much economic devastation due to the fact that people had to be working from home, that two million women left the workforce, and probably at this time more than that, right, two million women left

the workforce because we know that, even though we want to believe that we are living in modern times, that childcare will majority of the time fall on women. So this administration has now created another behemoth of a piece of legislation, and according to Politico, they're like, we don't really know what the fuck to call it. They're like, is it a job's package, a human infrastructure bill, a

climate bill, a social welfare legislation? We don't know. But essentially what it is looking at and what it is being referred to by Jonathan Weissman of The New York Times is that the breath of this legislation is basically has cradle to grave qualities, and it would affect how people, how we all see ourselves in relation to the federal government and the federal government's responsibility to help us in

some of the most desperate times. Now, the New Deal, if you remember was a sweeping piece of legislation that was part infrastructure, a part building infrastructure, part human infrastructure,

housing jobs, all of these things. Right, But we also know that there were carved outs in order to get the Southerners on board to make sure that people of color and women were not included, right, Because that's always the mainstay that government is great to work for the people is so long as those people are white, and so long as those people are male. But if they are, as anybody else that government is going to be working for, then you know, then it's about welfare. Like that's essentially

always where we go here. So in this legislation, this is what is being said. Consider a life from conception to death. This is according to Jonathan Weisman of The New York Times and his review. Democrats intend to fund paid family and medical leave to allow a parent to take some time off during pregnancy and after a child's birth. When that parent is ready to return to work, Expended funding for childcare would kick in to help cover their

daycare costs when that child turns three. Another part of the bill, universal kindergarten. Pre kindergarten, would ensure public education can begin at an earlier age, regardless of where that

child lives. Then we move on. Most families with children would continue to receive federal income supplements each month in the form of an expanded child tax credit, and at high school graduation, most students would be guaranteed two years of higher education through expanded federal financial aid geared toward

community colleges. Even after that, income supplements and generous workforce training programs, including specific efforts to train home health and elder care workers, would keep the government present in many adult lives. In old age, people would be helped by tax credits to offset the cost of elder care and buy an expansion of Medicare to cover dental, hearing, and

vision services. Even this description doesn't capture the bill's ambitions when it comes to policies on taxes, climate, and immigration, emphasizing the government part. So they're what they're saying too, is this is that for the longest time, right, what is the biggest and most negative moniker that Republicans have with regard to democrats agendas to help Americans where they know that help is desperately needed. They call them socialists.

They say that you are a socialist that where this is a communist agenda, and that this is not what government should be doing. Government should not be a part of every aspect of your life, and that people need to have personal responsibility and I'm not going to be dictated to and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.

Because here's the thing what Democrats don't do as a rebuttal and don't say as a rebuttal about Republican pushback against any kind of government aid to those that are in need, which is at this point pretty much a majority of Americans, is that Republicans don't want government to help you because they want to privatize everything. Right. They want to make sure that every part of your life is being hit by and controlled by capitalism, and in doing so, right, then people are making a buck off

of their ability to quote unquote help you. And then there are no regulations around how right, how these companies are dictating your life. And so we'll privatize everything, and government isn't responsible for a thing, and nothing is going to come to you for free, right. And so instead of us having this consistent conversation with regard to what Republicans are trying to do. It's always Republicans coming back

with their feeling that Americans are undeserving. It's very easy, right, and I don't understand every time time why it's so fucking difficult to just say that Republicans believe that Americans are undeserving. They don't believe that you should be supported, they don't believe that your family should be cared for.

So while they want to ensure that a woman has no control over her body, that essentially women are just baby making factories, right that have to that are forced to stay at home because they have no support in the home, and they have no support in terms of childcare because they can't afford it outside of the home.

So once again, men, white men in particular, are the ones that are the heads of the households, the ones that are sitting in the business chairs, in the conference rooms, in the c suites because the little woman is stuck at home as a baby making factory, because there is nowhere and no ability to fucking plan because we've taken

an option, a healthcare option, off of the table. And we started this in Texas, but you have seen since last week how all of these things are becoming a domino effect across some of the most disgusting red states in this country. So again here's the messaging. Republicans don't give a fuck about your family. They don't give a

fuck about your children. They care about fetuses, but once that fetus turns into a baby and comes out of your fucking womb, they want to do nothing to ensure that that child is educated, that that child is healthy, that that child is set up to be a productive citizen in this country. They sure as fuck don't want you to have a quality public education that learns anything right that is outside of the scope of oh, white

America is excellent. They sure as fuck don't want to give you the tools to be able to go through higher education, which you need to get any type of job that is going to turn into some type of possible career. But they don't want to alleviate the debt of doing something that now has become a necessity, which is a college education. So when I say, when we look at the things that Democrats are rolling out and we're saying, well, this is historic, well this is big.

So are our fucking problems. But I would argue that our biggest problem are the Republicans are the domestic terrorists that we continue to try and collaborate with to get anything done for the American people that frankly, they want to ensure have no power because they sure as fuck don't trust your ability to vote, and we know that they don't trust women, and we know that they don't

like black, Indigenous people of color of BIPOC folks. So why not just say that so that the American people can have a very clear picture of where they are right now. So if you are jobless, and you're joblessness benefits are expiring, right, we already had have an issue that at the end of October, right, the evictions are going to begin again, the moratorium will have expired. Right, So, in no way, shape or form do Republicans set Americans

up to live a full and complete life. In no uncertain terms, do Republicans care about your ability to pursue the American dream, about your ability to pursue a decent quality of life. They don't even want to give you a basic living wage. So instead of us right constantly rolling out all of these big projects, which again are important, but rolling them out in a way where we are not drawing a deep line in the sand between the difference between what Republicans want to deny Americans versus what

it is that Democrats want to provide for Americans. Because at the end of the day, Republicans want to get on these soap boxes and talk about all the ways in which Democrats want to take things away from you. And funny enough, I have seen not one piece of legislation ever be rolled out under a Democrat that is about taking away your stupid fucking guns or taking away your ability to pray. Right, But that's always the go to for Republicans. They're going to knock door to door

and take everything away from you. When has there ever been a piece of legislation to do that? Tell me? But everything that Republicans put out is actually, in reality taking something away. But according to the messaging that comes out of any Democrats' mouth, you don't fucking hear that.

There is not a piece of legislation that Republicans have rolled out over the past fucking year at the state and local level that is not about denying an American something, whether it is denying a woman's right to choose, whether it is denying your access to the ballot, whether it is denying healthcare, whether it is denying school boards ability to keep your children safe in schools. Think about all of the things that Republicans have rolled out to deny you,

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