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To everyone who voted for Trump and relies on social security, or ACA healthcare, or have pre-existing conditions, or has a child with special needs, or LGBT family, or undocumented friends and family, I have no sympathy for you. You got what you voted for, next time learn your candidate's policies before the election. We tried to warn you, we tried to tell you his policies were radical or even dangerous. We tried to tell you he wanted to take all those things away. We tried to tell you we would be the ones paying for his tariffs; but you wouldn't listen. He is not your friend, he does not care about you, all he wants to stay our of jail and make himself and his wealthy friends richer. The rest of us were willing to pay a little more for groceries if it meant our families would have healthcare, our friend's children with special needs could get an education, our parents could collect their hard-earned social security. Instead we will all pay a lot more for everything when tariffs are imposed and the migrants who pick our fruits and vegetables are deported.

Now your penance: call your congressmen every day for the next four years, ask them to stand-up to Trump, to block his policies that will make life harder and more expensive for everyday Americans, to block his nominations, tell them you will vote them out in the next election if they don't -- and actually vote against them when they don't. Write letters to the White House asking them not to do all the things he promised us he'd do. Write to the Supreme Court, and all the government agencies we rely on everyday asking them to resist rolling-back all the progress we've made as a country over the last century. If you don't, it won't just be the liberals paying the price, it will be your friends, your families, and even you.

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Not sure who you are writing this for but the ratio of maga republicans to normal people on Lemmy is probabaly like less than 1:100

Go write it on Reddit where the ratio would be like 1:10

You are preaching to the choir here

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 61 points 5 days ago

Just let them say what they want to. If words could fix this, they would have.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, those who voted for Fuckface 45 and feel betrayed? They have one job, and that's to ensure the administration they voted for doesn't get installed.

The rest of us get to try and have a real government.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago

It’s “off my chest”. Let them vent. They’ve earned it.

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 26 points 5 days ago

Stop complaining on my complaining forum

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I genuinely do not understand what this means I’m sorry. Nope got there

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Getting something off ones chest simply means externalizing, saying it out loud for the sake of doing the act. This isnt a soapbox, this is an audience/support network for shouting into the void.

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