I’ve come to realize that the messaging is missing revealing the betrayal to American values. That is, the GOP is about segregation for the sake of hierarchy and wealth generation (the economy), while Democratic Party is really about the same. Neither is about doing diversity and inclusion, though one is about paying lip service to it and the other, as always, is about destroying it. Evidence shows that nationwide disenfranchisement laws grew, not shrank, after the Civil Rights movement ‘ended.’ That is, 48 states made new laws or increased existing ones to conduct deeper practices of voting denial for some reason on conditions that varied in each state. Massachusetts became one of last to make its first law post 2000 election, allowing the state to take away voting right of ‘certain people’ under certain conditions, after 220 years of not doing so. Only two states now do NOT take away voting rights under some conditions, Vermont and Maine. Yet the right conservative wing brilliantly hid the strategy and the practice, making the vast majority of Americans unaware as the Democratic Party cheered on the Civil Rights Movement, under the guise of celebration. It’s not being cynical. Northern states like Massachusetts and Vermont started by abolishing slavery and giving all Americans voting rights by 1781. It’s been downhill since, and we’ve come to accept as a whole that taking away voting rights, or alienating a humans’ natural rights, is OK under some conditions. But unalienating an individual’s inherent rights was deliberately and consciously what the country was founded on in opposition to the autocrat’s worldview of alienable rights from individuals or groups of them under arbitrary conditions. Few people seem to discuss this and instead perceive progress as “good” and couldn’t possibly see it as “bad”.

But it is. We are a nation that as a whole has gotten richer materially but have given up on the bottom twenty percent, having taken away their voting rights the most. Over 16 percent of black Floridians have their voting rights permanently taken away in a country found on the opposite ideal. Biden had no time to fight for civil rights, or unalienable rights, putting the economy first. Kamala Harris wouldn’t allow freedom of speech to occur at the convention and have our fellow Muslim Americans, represented by one Muslim congresswoman who wanted to speak, from mentioning and at least discussion the US taxpayer funded genocide. A healthy debate should be part of a democracy, not repressed by its party leaders. I voted for Harris but felt betrayed and foolish for missing that very fact that civil rights come first and the economy second. It’s not the messaging; it’s the national disenfranchisement of voters that is the issue. It is the repression of free speech and funding a genocide that reveals how far we’ve sunk morally while rising materially. The governor of California called out to mayors and police to being jailing the homeless after the SCOTUS decision to allow criminalization of this underclass just a month before the election. There can be hardly any sign of how far we’ve fallen from human values when instead of using the wealth of his “great state” to lift up those most in need, he instead jails them. What would Jesus do? He hung out with “last” who were first in the Kingdom, so you’ll probably him jail if you want to answer.