I don’t expect Republicans to talk about poverty, never did. In fact, I became a Democrat when I realized Democrats were the only ones who ever discussed this American shame.
Though Democrats didn’t solve poverty, at least they acknowledged it, like Robert F. Kennedy did on a campaign visit in 1968 to coal country in Eastern Kentucky, where he found people who he said were “desperate, and full of despair.” Said Kennedy, “It seems to me that in a country as wealthy as we are that this is an intolerable condition, which reflects on all of us. We can do things all over the rest of the world, but we should do something for people here in our own country.”
Kamala Harris only talks about “the middle class.” Like most of her Democratic predecessors over the last 30 or 40 years, that’s as low as she’ll go.
Trump, at least, has the decency to lie to people and tell them he’s going to lift them up by pushing out the foreigners who he implies are responsible for their troubles. I don’t think they see a bright future for themselves during a Trump presidency, but if you’re going to be miserable anyway, who wouldn’t prefer feeling angry and vengeful over hopeless and fearful?
But whatever you do and whoever you’re voting for, don’t let your leaders let you forget that the misery out there is real. My Chicago school teacher wife keeps me in hearing range of urban poverty every workday; it’s bad as ever, and its consequences on children are seemingly ever worse. And as I’ve mentioned here before, I have a family connection to Middletown, Ohio, the once-proud, now hollowed-out steel town where J.D. Vance grew up, and chronicled so disingenuously in his book, Hillbilly Elegy. I keep up on doin’s in Middletown, through a Facebook page. Over the last few days, I’ve run across posts like these.
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Can anyone hep with some food I have 4 kids no food till the 4th
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Hi, I’m in need of a rides to work. Just started at Kroger Fulfillment center in Monroe. I work nights shift. It will probably be for a few months until I save up some for new car. But I can pay you. It would be 4 nights a week. Uber is getting too expensive!!
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Anyone have a car for sale around $2000
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Anyone need anything hauled away
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Does anyone have any extra chicken wire around I could come pickup?
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Whats the point in a “Community Center” if when you call them, they talk to you like a dog, then almost refuse to help you? Because youre not a “member”? OF WHAT?!?! The COMMUNITY???
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Looking to do big jobs before the end of the season I need the money for my Future and it would really help me I’m at a young age but I’m good at everything and I’ll be on time and actually show up for the job I just really could use the money I want to pursue my dreams in lawncare but there ain’t no jobs out there so I thought i would try this so let’s see how it goes just let me know as soon as possible! Have a amazing day!
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Anyone Know Of Who I Can Contact About The Place I Live At Not Fixing Anything? I’ve Been Telling Them About My Downstairs Bathroom Ceiling Caving In For About A Whole Year Now Probably More And Mold In That Bathroom And They Have Done Nothing. It Finally All Fell Down. My Kids 2,5 & 6 Years Old Are At High Risk From Using The Upstairs Bathroom (Above From This Ceiling) And the Whole Toilet Falling Right Through Cause The Upstairs Bathroom Is Also Soft And Mushy. TRAILBRIDGE TOWNHOMES
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So I wasn’t going to post this but here I go.
I found a THREE YEAR OLD BOY walking ALONE towards university blvd.. that’s a very busy street.. like 5 lanes of traffic busy….
This boy was alone and had NO shoes on. He’s with the police and the parents eventually called him in, but the officer said he had made it almost a quarter of a mile away from his house. I am completely blown away…. My heart breaks for that little boy and I just want everybody to pray for him. Please parents pleaseee watch your babies.. no one else had stopped or called for help.. we gotta do better. He could’ve been hit by a car or picked up by a creep. How did no one notice?……..
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There’s a dude casually walking down Town blvd with a hatchet.
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Folks, Middletown is only about an hour from Springfield, Ohio. Haven’t seen any mention of marauding Haitians at the root of Middletown’s problems. Or Mexicans. Seems like old-fashioned poverty to me.
Which we might begin to solve if we dared to speak its name. Maybe during the debate tonight? I’m not holding my breath, are you?
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