This year for the A to Z I am writing about the differences between democracy and the other things. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It’s my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

B is for Benevolence over Bigotry.

Now I am not saying that ALL Democrats are benevolent.  And I am not saying that ALL Republicans are bigots. Let me make that clear. It just seems to me that the policies and laws that each party wants to make are so vastly different. 

Take the new budget. Why in heaven would you want to take away funding from cancer research or giving food to children just to give tax breaks to the wealthy and fund a larger military presence?

Does the color of one’s skin or the fact that two men or women love each other change the fact that they are human beings? 

And as we can see from what has happened in the last year, the situation has gotten much worse. The “One Big Beautiful Bill” did pass and funding for things like cancer research, public broadcasting and the like is gone. The aid we give to other countries has been stopped as well. The problem is in doing that we have made our country less stable. 

Is it so hard to care about someone other than yourself? I just don’t get it. 

The basis for this year’s A to Z has been taken from the speech that Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, delivered on the opening of the 218th congress, which was the least productive congress in history up to that time. This congress may be worse!