You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. You reduce crime with universal healthcare, public housing, livable wages, and free college. You reduce violence by creating happy, healthy communities that aren’t constantly fighting over basic needs and material resources.
You really have to stop and wonder how the hell everything can be so expensive when all we’ve done for 40+ years is give corporations the tax breaks they swore they needed to hire workers, cut prices, and give everyone raises.
My whole adult life the narrative has been that conservatives are “patriots”, and liberals are the “American haters”. But liberals are desperately trying to save US democracy from a conservative movement hellbent on sacrificing it for one man’s ego.
It’s exhausting.
So white mega church pastor gets 6 months for abusing children while non-violent illegal immigrants get thrown into gitmo-inspired cells and are tortured … if you’re ok with this then f*ck you and f*ck whatever “god” you pray to,
James Talarico: “Every dollar we are spending bombing people in the Middle East is a dollar we are not spending in our communities back home. We’re always told there’s not enough money for schools, there’s not enough money for healthcare, there’s not enough money for housing or our veterans, but there always seems to be enough money to bomb people on the other side of the world”
We need to have a serious discussion when Trump is done about how to handle the catastrophic dereliction of Congress to rein in a madman in the WH so it never happens again. This country is collapsing under the weight of an outsized federal government exclusively controlled by a wannabe mob boss that thinks his power is absolute and where he can openly threaten other branches and institutions when a check is made on the Executive and its power. Every day his delusions and demand for unquestioned fealty get worse. Something’s gotta give here.