The most basic requirement of a civilized society is to protect and nurture children. By that measure, America is a colossal failure.  

School massacres. Drone strikes. Lack of healthcare (including mental health). Child homelessness and hunger. The climate emergency that threatens all future life. Systemic racism and police violence against Black and Brown youth. Caging migrant kids. Family separation and deportations — which is essentially child torture. These and other atrocities against children are accepted and perpetuated by both major parties. They are each complicit, notwithstanding the performative opposition of Democrats, who fundraise off promising to end them, yet never do.

The cruel and criminal child cages that Trump and Biden have used were built by Obama and Democrats. Deportations that wrecked asylum-seeking families have been undertaken and funded by both parties. Drone strikes that tear children to pieces have been ordered by Republican and Democratic presidents. Gun violence against schoolkids is met with thoughts and prayers but no meaningful action. Neither party has treated the climate crisis as an actual emergency. Simply put, along with bloated military spending and enriching the billionaire class, “let the children suffer and die” has bipartisan support.

Democrats crowed about “cutting child poverty in half,” as though leaving the other half in poverty was something to be proud of. Moreover, they spun and twisted the facts to omit that the child tax credits were temporary.

Thia is with … 😏✌️💋🔥 @ThiaBallerina

Cutting child poverty in half. For a few months. For some people. Maybe. And calling it the most progressive bill, since who fn knows, doesn’t exactly scream progress. But if the talking point is repeated enough, you’ll think it’s true. All in a day’s work. 😑

March 15th 2021

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Most importantly, the “cutting child poverty in half,” talking point was an acknowledgement that child poverty is a policy choice.

Aronaya COVID IS AIRBORNE @aronaya

Wait, so if the Dems cut child poverty in half last year, does that mean they doubled it this year?

January 3rd 2022

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Which is why it’s no surprise that the Biden administration and governors of both parties are hell-bent on sending America’s children into the mouth of the Omicron dragon. Parents, teachers, administrators, educators, and students deserve a remote schooling option, at least for January, with free and robust mental health support for children.

Ms. Melon @missme1on

It's easy to push for schools to reopen when you think of children as political entities, but to me they are people. Should i go to work w/ mild symptoms and risk infecting Ada, who lives with her grandma? Or Nikhil, who has asthma? Or Shay who just turned 5 n can't get vxed yet?

January 2nd 2022

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anna phylaxis @quatoria

Perhaps instead of sending "disease sniffer dogs" into our schools, as though covid were marijuana in a backpack, we should RETURN TO REMOTE EDUCATION.

WBZ | CBS Boston News @wbz

COVID Detecting Dogs Begin Working In 3 Massachusetts School Districts https://t.co/vhX3JkiCXq

January 5th 2022

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Savvy☭ @sleepisocialist

A pack of KN95s that I got for $15 a month ago is now $50 on Amazon. Right before children are being forced back to school. During the covid peak. While hospitals are overflowing. What’s happening right now is a deeply immoral, profit driven humanitarian crisis.

January 4th 2022

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The Democratic Party leadership is stubbornly forcing in-person learning and bullying anyone seeking a remote option. Why? To keep the working class enriching the 1% and to appease Republicans. It is a despicable cop-out and further evidence that Biden, Pelosi, and Democratic leaders have no coherent COVID-19 mitigation strategy other than pushing vaccines and having their supporters blame everything on Trump and anti-vaxxers. More on that here.

Bottom line: The pandemic has been a mask-off moment for the duopoly’s fascists.

Peter Daou @peterdaou

America, where we coddle billionaires and bully teachers in a pandemic.

January 5th 2022

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