Plog Number 101
A Wish List
Hello Ploggers, how are you. If you are like me you are exhausted with two huge elections in a month’s time. We won’t know the result for sure until later but it was looking good for Warnock a while ago. But when I looked just now it was looking better for Walker. The small rural counties are counted first. The more dense populated urban areas usually get their numbers in later. Another nail biter. I swear I will give up Politics…but I can not.
I have been wondering how fast Congress can get laws pushed through. With Smoking Joe Biden having just shy of a month with a majority house and senate I am whipping up a wish 🎁 list. I think that there has to be Federal anti-Gerrymandering mandates put into place. Michigan has a great law on the books for their state but Ohio does not. How is that fair? No states should be getting away with this despicable practice. They could re-draw the maps fairly and then they could set up federal watch dogs to monitor the process periodically. Each state could have its own team with authority to bring action when and if things get tinkered with. How will our votes even count when the districts have been drawn in such manipulative patters? There are many people who already think that their votes are useless. Without putting an end to state’s Gerrymandering their cynicism will be right. Democracy should involve every vote counting equally. We narrowly saved our democracy, now we have to make sure it works right.
Of course I would love to see a strong Women’s Reproductive Rights Law at the Federal level. It is unbelievable that a codification of Roe v. Wade never got enacted in all the years that it was upheld. It was a mistake that will not be made again. I think we had it for so long we just assumed that our daughters would have it, yet they don’t. Another item on the list would be a mandatory minimum wage of 💸 $15.00. The wealth of the upper class is well established. Letting the poorest workers among us earn a fair wage is not a threat to anyone. There is NO trickle down. But there is earning a fair wage. I wonder what the chances are of getting those things in under the wire of 2022?? Joe and his Democratic House and Senate could act stealthily and swiftly, kind of how B*tch McConnell got Amy Cunty Barrett onto the Supreme Court in record time.
So asking for a Federal anti-gerrymandering law, a fair $15.00 minimum wage and Codification of Roe are my top 3 wishes from the Government by December 31, 2022. Ha Ha!! For sure things will be different and challenging over the next year. But we will still have lots to plog about. Stay strong and RECLAIM.
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