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Inequity

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Inequity Judd Garrett Last week, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the Biden administration will be distributing hurricane Ian relief to the citizens of Florida based on skin color when she said,  “We have to address this[hurricane relief] in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality but we also need to fight for equity.”  Equity is the process of giving people social credit based on race, gender and lifestyle. Applying equity to hurricane relief means that those factors will weigh much more heavily than actual need. So, giving relief to those in need will not be based on their need. According to Kamala Harris’ equity agenda, hypothetically, a white male truck driver whose house was just destroyed by hurricane Ian would have to wait in line for government assistance behind a black female lawyer whose house has a little water damage in the front room. It is easy to dismiss Kamala Harris for the racist that she is, b...

The Rise and Coming Fall of the Pharma-Owned Authoritarian Left in the United States

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The Rise and Coming Fall of the Pharma-Owned Authoritarian Left in the United States Social movements that demand conformity and intolerance of freedom of speech, an independent press, and gut-based hatred of individual rights cannot sustain themselves due to strategic flaws. James Lyons-Weiler The “Left” in America used to be represented as the umbrella party under which the disenfranchised could collect, welcome to protection from the storm of bigotry, hatred, and intolerance from (as liberals were fond of describing) racist, bible-thumping, uneducated conservatives. The Democratic Party was the party that represented labor against oppressive corporate greed. If you are a Democrat and you have not taken a close, objective look at what’s happened to your party, let me give you a mirror: Prior to COVID-19, the Democratic Party sold out to Big Pharma. Top-down party politics demanded support for the rejection of exemptions for vaccine mandates. The money was easy, and the Party acted ju...