Love Death Circus

VOTE!

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE!!

INVITE TOTAL STRANGERS TO VOTE!!!

On March 24, 1945, a teen-aged infantryman stationed in Germany received his copy of the U.S. War Department’s pamphlet “Army Talks.”*

“You are away from home, separated from your families…and risking your very lives because of a thing called fascism…It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand...fascism in order to combat it."

"[Fascism] is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state…The people run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.”

The pamphlet went on to list three core tools of fascism:
1) Pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity [including] a “well-planned hate campaign against minority races, religions, and other groups.”
2) Replace international cooperation with a “perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count.”
3) Insist that “the world has but two choices—either fascism or communism, and they label as ‘communists’ everyone who refuses to support them.”

That soldier was my father. He suffered PTSD from fighting against fascism, which contributed to his death 20 years later.

This would be a good week to do what you can to strengthen a government run by people.



*Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letters from an American”

Thank you for your help on Prop 32! I'm leaning “Yes” for a minimum wage increase, even though it might strain small non-profits I support.

Now I’m struggling with Prop 35, which “provides permanent funding for medi-cal health care services.”

What could be wrong with that? Medi-cal has helped me and my family, and many people I know, but, amazingly, two organizations I trust are on different sides of Prop 35!

HELP!

Here are their arguments:

Jodi Hicks, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California:
"It’s important to ensure that Californians have access to health care which is exactly what [Prop 35] will help ensure. This measure will help Planned Parenthood health centers, and other community health centers…Funding for Medi-Cal is critical for the millions of Californians who rely on the program for essential reproductive health care."

League of Women Voters of California: “Prop 35 is a well-meaning but misguided effort to try to provide more and steady funding for Medi-Cal and potentially improve reimbursement rates for medical providers. Prop 35 would…require the tax proceeds to be used to support only Medi-Cal and other health programs – making that money unavailable for other priorities and making it difficult to respond to future changes to Medi-Cal that might be mandated by the federal government."