Progressive Bull Moose

With three days to go until the election, the immortalized Reagan question everyone who has not voted should ask is "Are we better off now than we were four years ago?"

The answer should be a resounding "yes."

Remember this cover from Time Magazine? It shows the Biden/Harris Administration taking over the train wreck left behind by the Trump/Pence team.

The Coronavirus was still raging. Many schools and businesses were shut. People were afraid to venture outside. Trump was making the situation worse with his nonsensical views on combatting the pandemic by injecting bleach in the arm and wearing masks did not matter.

Of course, Trump proved how wrong he was by getting COVID-19.

Then there was the tanking of the economy thanks in part to Trump's mismanagement of the pandemic. Remember his team left with the worst job creation record since Herbert Hoover.

There was the threat to Democracy enabled by Trump and his MAGA minions with their constant Big Election Lies following the 2020 Presidential Elections which culminated in the Trump-enabled Domestic Terrorist Insurrection Attack on the Nation's Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Like the phrase "Remember the Alamo," people need to "Remember January 6" and the people/traitors who made that happen.

Finally, they need to remember that it was Donald Trump who left the judicial ticking time bomb on the Supreme Court to jettison women's reproductive freedom with his three Justice nominations that provided the margin to overturn Roe v Wade.

They also need to remember how Biden/Harris successfully batted down the Coronavirus despite Trump and MAGA naysayers.

They need to remember that the Biden/Harris Administration and their allies in Congress made investments in the American Future and People through the American Rescue Plan, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act that have moved the country forward, created record job growth to the tune of 16 million new jobs, expanded the health care markets, funded schools and law enforcement, reduced drug prices like those on insulin for seniors, invested in clean energy strategies and green collar jobs, and lifted people, including children, out of poverty.

Overall, they need to remember that the Biden/Harris Economy is better than the Trump/Pence one.

People need to remember that Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson would like to do away with many of the Biden/Harris Legislative achievements cited above.

The Misery Index (the unemployment plus inflation rates) at the end of the Trump Administration was 8.6 percent. It is currently 6.79 percent under the Biden/Harris one.

If a case can be made for It's Morning in America again, both the Biden/Harris Administration and the Harris/Walz Campaign can make it.

On the issue of inflation that the Trump/Vance ticket blames solely on Biden and Harris, those assertions like virtually all of the Liar in Chiefs statements, have been repeatedly debunked and a case can be made, like the one made by former President Bill Clinton, that Trump's mismanagement of the pandemic coupled with the supply chain issues at the height of the Coronavirus also fueled the rise in inflation along with Putin's Invasion of Ukraine and corporate greed among this nation's plutocrats.

People also need to remember that Donald Trump and Republicans again killed Bipartisan Border Security and Immigration Reform. They did it in the Bush II Administration. They did it in the Obama Administration. They did not do it in the Trump years and they sabotaged it repeatedly during the Biden/Harris term.

People need to remember that Trump and Republicans do not want to solve immigration. They want the issue to instill fear in the people.

How patriotic is that?

Crime was also up at the end of the Trump years compared to the Biden period.

People need to remember.

Finally, people need to remember when voting, the character and position of the candidates when making their choices.

They need to ask themselves:

Which candidate took away women's national right to reproductive freedom and made their own healthcare choices?
Which candidate is the convicted felon?
Which candidate is the one that tried to overturn an election?
Which candidate is the one who has been impeached twice?
Which candidate is the one not supported by his first Vice Presidential choice and most of his first term team.
Which candidate is the adjudicated rapist?
Which candidate is the failed businessman who actually bankrupted a casino?
Which candidate is the one that, as Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said, constantly "Shit talking America."
Which political party whose candidates down the ballot are blindly following the above candidate?
Which candidate and political party wants to undo the bulk of the legislative progress made over the last three and a half years?

Newsflash: It is not Kamala Harris and the Democrats.

Remember just over the last month, Donald Trump has called the United States "The garbage can of the world," told hurricane victims to oppose FEMA efforts to help them, reportedly said "Hitler did good things," called his opponents "The Enemy Within," said he will protect women his way "whether they like it or not," called for the repeal of the CHIPS and Science Act," and proposed a nine-person firing squad for Liz Cheney.

And Republicans still drinking the election denying-white nationalist-anti moving America forward MAGA Kool-Aid running down-ballot races like Kari Lake in her Senate race against Ruben Gallego or Andy Biggs, Juan Ciscomani, David Schweikert, and Paul Gosar in their campaigns for Congress or Vince Leach and Mark Finchem in their quests to return to the Arizona State Legislature?

Unlike mainstream and reality-based Republicans like Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Mesa Mayor John Giles, and former Senator Jeff Flake, people like Lake, Biggs, Ciscomani, Schweikert, Gosar, Leach, and Finchem are putting an election-denying cult over the nation. Trump over the needs of the American People. Regression over progression.

This is not the stuff people should want in their leaders and public servants.

People need to remember what it was like four years ago and how far the country has moved forward under the Biden/Harris Administration.

Donald Trump left the nation in the early morning hours of January 20, 2021, too cowardly to attend his successor's inauguration, worse off.

By virtually all measurable statistics, Joe Biden will be leaving the nation better off.

Vice President Harris is part of the Biden team and helped shape the policies that moved the country forward.

Unlike her unworthy opponent, she has a positive Opportunity economic agenda that will build on the successes of the Biden/Harris Administration that will chart a New Way Forward.

Economists have praised her economic plans and condemned her failed businessman opponents.

She believes in the "Promise of America" and will work to restore the national right for women to have reproductive freedom and make their own healthcare choices.

Vote for the Candidates and Party up and down the ballot who are part of the team that is bettering the Nation and has a plan to continue that progress.

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