A Blue Wave Is Only The Beginning Of Restoring Our Democracy

BY ROBERT FRANEK at Politicus USA

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/04/15/a-blue-wave-is-only-the-beginning-of-restoring-our-democracy.html

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It will take retiring the politics of trickle-down economics with Paul Ryan and all its other acolytes in Congress. And in place of this forty-year-old scam we need to focus on living wages, purchasing power, and pay equity. We need a politics that breaks the chains of systemic and structural poverty.

It will require giving up the myth that anyone with a gun can play hero in the event of a massacre in a school, place of worship, or shopping center. Instead of this myth built on toxic masculinity, we need a ban on assault style weapons, tough background checks, and limits on magazine size. But more so, we need give up the myth of redemptive violence and address the root causes that lead to gun violence.

It will mean putting to bed the politics of fearing immigrants and refugees and in its place a robust politics of welcome to those seeking safety and new life in this land. So long as xenophobia infects our policy the lamp of Lady Liberty is diminished. In the politics of the future we must turn walls into tables of reconciliation.

It will demand ending the debates about climate change and other scientific realities. It is destructive and dishonest to give equal time to perspectives that are not equally valid. Instead of asking the tired “both sides” false equivalency question, it is imperative to have conversations that will foster greater stewardship of the earth and its resources for the sake of the generations to come.

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