For A REAL Positive Shift

It looks like the maga regime is suddenly changing its tune a little bit, but this does not mean much because its at a time when they are plummeting in the polls and are looking for votes, in order to get more funding for Ice, as well as for this year's elections.

ACTING BETTER, IN ORDER TO GET VOTES, IS NOT THE SAME AS BEING BETTER. SO POSITIVE SHIFTS, AT TIMES LIKE THIS, OFFER NO ASSURANCE FOR THE FUTURE.

I VOTE TO DEFUND ICE and then either completely abolish it or at least dismantle it and start over with far more extensive screening and training for its members, and with a pact to never again use it to flood or police our communities. We have local, state and federal law enforcement for that, and more funding and help should be given to them instead of using Ice in our communities.

As for my vote later this year; I am an Independent and not a fan of democrats or republicans, but I feel like I must do all I can to make sure that the maga regime does not continue to monopolize. I WILL NOT FORGET THE PAST YEAR, NO MATTER WHAT CHANGES THEY MAKE, JUST TO GET VOTES. My heart aches for all the people who have been being either distressed, traumatized or ethnically cleansed or killed by Trump's violent wars and threats and ice raids and thefts of lands or resources...etc. This hell cannot continue; masses of people, almost everywhere, have already been left with no sense of security - nothing to trust in, here in America, due to the behaviors of the republicans in charge! America can and should do FAR better than that, permanently - not just for a short time, in order to get votes.

I wish a positive shift were happening, at a time when votes were not needed, because this is what would give some desperately needed reassurance, but this is not the case right now. I will not forget the past year and its (still burning) negative effects on masses of lives here in America as well as in places like Palestine and Venezuela and Greenland and Canada and Iran and Syria and Nigeria and Lebanon...etc. And I cannot forget the fear I still feel due to the ice raids and the ongoing plight of the Palestinian people. Its all just sad as hell. I just want to cry every time I think of what our world has come to.

REAL AND PERMANENT positive change, AND recovery from the past year, must happen before I can start feeling better. And I think most people feel the same way.