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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rights and norms being destroyed.....

In many states, women no longer have the ability to make medical decisions regarding their bodies during a pregnancy. In fact, a woman can die, but her body will still be kept on life support to incubate a child regardless of family decisions. This policy is resulting in harm and death to women.

Freedom of the press is being infringed upon. AP News was removed from the White House press pool for not using "Gulf of America" in its guidelines. No American government official should use coercion upon a free press.

The Hatch Act is being quite openly violated with the messages on various government websites stating that this is a "Democrat shutdown." Keep politics out of federal agencies. The American government does not work for one party or another; it works for the American people, which is why the Hatch Act is so important.

The current administration has ended longstanding rules in place to ensure that federal contractors do not discriminate in against their employees on the basis of race, religion, sex, age, or other reasons. Those rules have been in place for 60 years, through Republican and Democratic administrations. The country used to believe in not discriminating against people.
 
America is currently looking to deport Afghan refugees who supported American troops during our military operations there. Many refugees have claimed that it would be death to return to Afghanistan, that they would be targeted by the Taliban, yet the current administration is making outlandish claims that the Taliban is totally cool with American supporters. There's no "right" to be a refugee in America, but the norm used to be that America didn't stab its allies in the back. Certainly no one will ever want to help Americans in overseas operations if the country is so willing to throw its allies to the sharks.

ICE is detaining citizens. The military has been deployed to cities. I don't think the "norm" is to have such a militant force deployed throughout the country.

This is a small thing, but I was reading about the removal of the penny from circulation. The current administration abruptly stopped production of the penny, which seems pretty straightforward, right? But they offered no guidance on how retailers are supposed to respond. Many states have laws that prohibit retailers from charging a different price when someone pays cash versus credit card, which means retailers cannot round up when someone pays cash and no pennies are available. If retailers run out of pennies (and they are running out), then they must round down every time, which is adding up to millions of dollars in losses.

That's been characteristic of this administration -- roll out a policy quickly and without thought, then the American people are forced to deal with the consequences. There's a reason the American government was designed to move slowly -- and it was designed that way from the start. That slowness is part of the democratic process, so all consequences can be considered. This should not be a country where one can just tear down a part of the White House because one person wants it. That has never, ever been the American way.

So how does this play into local politics? It's because the attorney general, the legislative branch of the state, is one of the checks and balances set up against the federal government. So if the federal government starts infringing on the rights of a state, then the attorney general can step in.

Like in the loss of the penny. A state attorney general can sue the federal government to force nation-wide guidance on how retailers should respond to the loss of the penny, and pass laws to protect retailers so they can round both up and down and not take losses.

Attorney generals can't protect against everything, I know. They can't enforce the Hatch Act. But there will be instances when they CAN step in, and that's why Virginia needs an attorney general who won't just rubber stamp approval on everything coming from the current Trump administration. That's where we are today. [/quote]

Here are some logical, rational reasons to vote for D leadership in VA.

Did any of the “moderates” read it? No.

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Reading it doesn’t automatically mean one agrees with it.[/quote]

PP took a lot of time to spell out rights and norms being trashed by Trump. Have any of these "moderates", including the PP who asked for the details, posted a sincere response? No.

PP was wasting her time. "Moderates" DGAF about facts or reason.

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I’m the PP who asked for the details. I stopped responding because I don’t agree that any of those rights and norms are being trashed by Trump.

In fact, I don’t even agree that many of what PP considers “rights and norms” are in fact rights or norms. Why shouldn’t we try to save a baby if the mother dies prematurely and the baby is viable? Why shouldn’t we enforce our existing immigration laws passed by democratically elected officials? The DC city council was asking for the National Guard to be deployed to DC in the early 2020’s - what changed that makes it now a fascist action? And you’re seriously pointing to the penny as an example here?

Obviously it’s indicative of a larger issue if we don’t even agree on what constitutes rights and norms (I’d argue the constitution and our laws guide us here, but PP’s response indicated otherwise). [/quote]

You nitpick on a few examples and neglect the big ones.

Women’s healthcare
Freedom of the press
Habeas corpus
Hatch act
Massive, careless layoffs 
Firing women & black officials because of their gender/sex 
Political revenge

The penny was given as a small example of the recklessness of Trump’s administration. This all creates chaos, not the norm of a stable government.

I’m sure you’re fine with all of that too. 
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