By Ande Jacobson
Most of my friends have made up their minds for this contentious 2024 election, and the vast majority are voting Democratic up and down the ticket for the good of the country as a whole even if they aren’t completely in line with some specific policies or even registered as Democrats. This makes sense to me. I’m never completely in line with any politician’s policies, but I learned a long time ago that with politics you never get everything exactly the way you want it. I learned that you should vote based on the overall good of a given candidate and whether they want to help us all or not. This election, I agree with most of the Democratic Party’s policies such as:
- Enacting fair taxation where everyone pays their fair share including the wealthy and corporations
- Lowering prescription drug prices not just for seniors but for everyone
- Stopping price gouging, especially for essentials like food, housing, and healthcare
- Protecting Social Security and Medicare without raising the retirement age or cutting benefits
- Producing more clean energy
- Enacting initiatives to address climate change
- Enacting sensible gun safety laws
- Protecting reproductive choice and freedom by codifying the protections of Roe v. Wade nationwide
- Enacting bipartisan legislation to tighten border security and enact humane immigration policies
- Continuing job growth and strengthening unions
- Making education affordable and accessible
- Continuing to improve the ACA to make healthcare available to all without the threat of financial ruin
- Protecting voting rights so that every eligible voter can cast their ballot – a bedrock principle of democracy
- Appointing judges and justices who will uphold the Constitution and rule of law, not shred it
- Strengthening our democracy
- Maintaining the separation of church and state enshrined in our Constitution
VP Harris recently announced that she also supports expanding Medicare to cover long term care at home to help the disabled and our seniors when they need it most without the threat of financial ruin.
Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and the Democratic Party understand that we have to work together and support making things better for all Americans through the above initiatives and the rest of the platform and policies they support. As such, I am very enthusiastically supporting Democrats up and down the ballot in this election along with most of my friends. Continue reading
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