I think I solved my ‘editor’ problem so I will try again to give an excellent post.

It started with the GOP and their relentless assault on the Affirmative Action policies….they won that battle with the help of the hacks on the Supreme Court and they continued their assault especially when the DEI program was introduced and then Donny shows up and wins and now the assault is almost complete….the total elimination of any fairness in government and society.

For many Americans, Donald Trump’s head-spinning array of executive orders in the early days of his second term look like an unprecedented effort to roll back democracy and the rights and liberties of American citizens.

But it isn’t unprecedented.

As we have written, American history is not a steady march toward greater equality, democracy and individual rights. America’s commitment to these liberal values has competed with an alternative set of illiberal values that hold that full American citizenship should be limited by race, ethnicity, gender and class.

The most famous example of this conflict is the Jim Crow era after Reconstruction, when many of the political and legal rights gained by African Americans in the Civil War era were swept away by disenfranchisement, segregation and discrimination. From roughly 1870 until 1940, democracy and equal rights were retreating, not advancing, leaving what was described in the 1960s by President Lyndon Johnson as “the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.”

Today, the Trump administration is seeking to roll back America’s commitment to equality and engaging in a broad effort to limit – if not outright deny – the rights, liberties and benefits of democracy to all Americans.

60 years of progress in expanding rights is being rolled back by Trump – a pattern that’s all too familiar in US history

They have sidelined the brown population then they went after any trans people and now it looks like the next target for Elmo and Donny will be our handicapped citizens.

President Trump’s suggestion last month that the tragic Potomac air crash was somehow the fault of disabled federal air traffic controllers was appalling—but it should have come as no surprise. Trump’s contempt for people with disabilities has been well documented, and it’s that animus, combined with the accelerating MAGA assault on diversity throughout the United States, that has disability rights advocates preparing to defend decades worth of hard-won protections.

One month into his presidency, Trump has unleashed a government-wide attack on people with disabilities, from anti-diversity executive orders to proposed special-education rollbacks to threats to slash programs like Medicaid that are lifelines for disabled people across the country. If successful, these actions could have catastrophic consequences for millions of Americans, according to disability rights experts.

“This is a crisis for the disability community, and the threat is extremely serious,” Maria Town, president and CEO of the American Association of People with Disabilities, told The Nation. “These changes have the potential to erode decades of progress that the disability community has fought tooth and nail to achieve.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-dei-target-access-disabilities/

Who’s next on the GOP/Trump hit list?

I think our disabled vets need to be paying attention to what these thugs are doing to our society….a society that use to pride itself on fairness for all and now the government is tearing down decades of progress….and the truly sad part is that the American voter in its hatred for others has made all this discrimination possible.

Is this the true face of America?

I ask….where will you be when they come for you?

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