I am aware that there are those who are tired of political posts and rants. However, social media is a platform for me to use my voice in support of many different things. It is also a way for me to engage against the current administration in the White House, its power hungry cronies, and their positions of authority--all of whom pose an active and real threat to me, my way of life, my family, my friends, the people I love, and many others. So, unless you are in a good financial place (i.e. billionaire), they are a threat to you and your life as well.
I will continue to be a part of the resistance and proud of it. I refuse to "play nice" in the face of what these people are doing. Our country's well-being demands that we stand and resist. Some people are saying that we should give #45 a chance and we should "work together" with him because he won the election and he is "everyone's president." Well, this is my response to those people.
• I will NOT forget how badly he and so many others treated #44 for eight years.
• I will NOT "work together" to privatize Medicare and cut Medicaid and Social Security.
• I will NOT "work together" to deny health care to people who need it.
• I will NOT "work together" to deny medical coverage to people on the basis of an actual or alleged "pre-existing condition."
• I will NOT "work together" to increase the profits of insurance companies.
• I will NOT "work together" to allow men to make choices about a woman's own body, or to restrict health care for women.
• I will NOT "work together" to persecute Muslims.
• I will NOT "work together" to shut out refugees from countries where we destabilized their governments, so that we could have something more agreeable to our oligarchy.
• I will NOT "work together" to lower taxes on the 1%.
• I will NOT "work together" to increase taxes on the middle class and poor.
• I will NOT "work together" to help #45 use the presidency to line his pockets and those of his cronies.
• I will NOT "work together" to weaken and demolish environmental protection.
• I will NOT "work together" to sell American lands, especially National Parks, to companies which then despoil those lands.
• I will NOT "work together" in any way to enable the killing of whole species of animals just because they are predators, or inconvenient for a few, or because some people want to get their thrills by killing them.
• I will NOT "work together" to waste trillions more dollars on our military when we already have the strongest defense in the world.
• I will NOT "work together" to alienate countries that have been our allies for as long as I have been alive.
• I will NOT "work together" to slash funding for education.
• I will NOT work together" to eliminate the arts or the institutions that support them.
• I will NOT "work together" to take basic assistance from people who are at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
• I will NOT "work together" to allow torture and "black op" prison sites.
• I will NOT "work together" to "take their oil."
• I will NOT "work together" to get rid of common sense regulations on guns.
• I will NOT "work together" to eliminate the minimum wage.
• I will NOT "work together" to support so-called "Right To Work" laws, or undermine, weaken, or destroy unions in any way.
• I will NOT "work together" to suppress scientific research, be it on climate change, fracking, or any other issue where a majority of scientists agree that #45 and his supporters are wrong on the facts.
• I will NOT "work together" to increase the number of nations that have nuclear weapons.
• I will NOT "work together" to put even more "big money" into politics.
• I will NOT "work together" to violate the Geneva Convention.
• I will NOT "work together" to give the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazi Party, and White Supremacists a seat at the table, or to normalize their hatred.
• I will NOT "work together" to increase voter suppression.
• I will NOT "work together" to normalize tyranny.
• I will NOT “work together” to eliminate or reduce ethical oversite at any level of government.
• I will NOT "work together" with anyone who is or admires, tyrants and dictators who murder their opposition.
• I will NOT "work together" with #45 because I will NOT allow one man to feed upon the fears of the populace by blaming minorities for their condition or their inability to thrive.
This is the line and I am drawing it. I DO and will stand for honesty, love, respect for all living beings, and for the compassion and humanity that is the center of life itself.
Consider this an opportunity to make a declaration of commitment to resistance. It's your choice to make a difference. If you want to copy and paste the declaration on a social media platform to show your commitment to the same, feel free to do it.
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