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We are not all singing the same song together.

If there were a memorable poem, set to a catchy tune, that everyone could sing together, the ideas we stand for would become clear as crystal to everyone.

Surely, what we believe in is good, and right, and true. Anyone who doubts this assertion should look at the current state of the Grand Old Party, and try to defend what they stand for, in comparison to what we stand for.

We want to help every citizen rise up out of poverty.

We want every citizen among us to be able to live a happy and healthy life, able to enjoy the world in which we live.

We know why these goals have not yet been achieved, and we know who is responsible for the misdirection and obfuscation.

We should not wait to follow the Congress.

The Congress should follow us.

I want to be able to sing a song, along with my friends and neighbors, and anyone who wants to join in, a simple song, with a catchy tune, about how good life can be, in the land of the free, if we can help everyone to escape from dire poverty.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose.

Everyone should have a place to live where we can't get evicted.

Nobody should face bankruptcy due to medical problems.

Everyone who works should be able to save money, take a vacation, save for retirement to supplement social security.

We should pay for medical school for anyone who has the aptitude.

With the growing field of machine learning and automation, people who work should be able to work less and get paid more, and enjoy more leisure time.

A portion of the population thinks everything is just fine, no need to change anything. But many of us believe that our American ideals are aspirational, that there is still much work to do to create the USA people have been dreaming about since 1776 or thereabouts. The MAGA movement would have us believe that we were once great, but we fell away. They have it backwards. We have been slowly according rights to people who deserve to have those rights recognized, and there is more to do. Nature should be accorded rights, to be free from pollution and destruction. Every woman should have bodily autonomy. We need to clean up the mess we've made over the past three centuries. We should do everything we can, as quickly as we can, to reduce the effects of climate change.

We can make Congress listen to US.

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