📢 We Deserve Democracy, Not Dysfunction & Trump's Dictatorship
Trump’s shutdown, healthcare cuts, and housing failures prove we deserve democracy—not dictatorship. Join People Power United to demand dignity, equality, and accountability for all.
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Friends, at People Power United, we believe in a simple, powerful truth:
Everyone deserves dignity — with access to housing, healthcare, and education.
Everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive — regardless of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, pronouns, religion, or employment status.
Everyone deserves safety — clean air and water, and communities free from gun violence.
These are not radical demands. They are the foundation of a free and functioning democracy — the vision of a nation that values people over profit, compassion over cruelty, and progress over power-hoarding.
But today, that vision is under attack.
We Deserve a Functioning Government — Not a Shutdown Dictated by Trump and Complicit Republicans
America deserves a government that works for its people — not one held hostage by Trump and his Republican enablers.
Friendly reminder: Trump and Republicans control the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives — yet they’ve chosen dysfunction over duty. They’ve deliberately driven our nation into another shutdown, weaponizing government itself to serve their extremist agenda. Trump and Republicans appear to be sabotaging the economy as it is projected the U.S. “could lose $15 billion of its growth domestic product each week the shutdown extends, with a monthlong shutdown leading to an additional 43,000 unemployed people, the Council of Economic Advisers’ warned in the memo. That damage does not account for the 1.9 million federal civilian employees who are either furloughed or working without pay.” 1
Because of Trump and Republican’s chaos, millions of working families are suffering. Nearly 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck 2, yet Trump and his allies refuse to work in a bipartisan manner to reopen the government and deliver relief.
This isn’t leadership — it’s sabotage.
Meanwhile, the wealthiest 1% own more than the bottom 93% of Americans. 3 That’s not freedom — that’s feudalism. Trump’s policies reward billionaires, corporations, and cronies while ordinary Americans are left wondering how to pay rent, buy groceries, or keep the lights on.
We Deserve to Be Healthy — Not Left to Die in a Manufactured Health Crisis
A moral government invests in health, research, and care — not in cruelty. Yet Trump and Republicans have turned a broken system into a full-blown healthcare crisis.
Their budget slashes Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, ripping healthcare away from 15 million low-income and working-class Americans. Experts estimate that 50,000 people will die unnecessarily every single year 4 because of these cuts.
Their plan would double premiums for 20 million Americans 5, forcing families to spend 40–50% of their limited incomes on healthcare, while insurance companies deny, deny, and deny necessary coverage to maximize profits.
A functioning democracy ensures that no one’s life depends on their bank account.
We Deserve to Be Housed — Not Homeless in the Wealthiest Nation on Earth
More than 771,480 Americans are homeless 6, and 85 million have houses that are uninsured or underinsured 7 — a moral failure in the wealthiest country in history.
Instead of fixing it, Trump’s shutdown has furloughed 84% of HUD staff, halting rental assistance and housing-subsidy programs that millions depend on.8
The National Flood Insurance Program — vital for families in coastal and flood-prone areas — is stalled, delaying home closings and raising buyer risks. An estimated 3,600 home sales — worth $1.59 billion a day — are at risk as the shutdown drags on. 9
While ordinary Americans face eviction and uncertainty, Trump and his congressional allies hand out massive tax breaks to billionaires and real estate moguls. And let’s not even start on the demolition of the East Wing of the White House — a reckless vanity project wasting over $200 million to satisfy Trump’s ego with a new entertainment complex built for himself, not the people. 10 They’ve created a housing crisis while rewarding the very people profiting from our pain.
We Deserve Education — Not Indoctrination
A healthy government educates its citizens — it doesn’t silence or try to indoctrinate them.
Trump and Republicans have cut funding, fired career educators, closed essential departments, and tried to strong-arm colleges into pushing a MAGA-driven Christian nationalist ideology. 11
Trump and Republicans fear critical thinking because it exposes corruption, inequality, and lies. Education is the heartbeat of democracy — and they’re trying to stop it.
We Deserve Safety — Not a World in Chaos
Safety means more than protection from violence — it means stability, peace, and global respect.
Yet Trump’s reckless foreign policy has alienated allies, broken promises, and turned the world against us. His decisions have made Americans less safe abroad and at home.
Instead of addressing gun violence, climate change, or disaster preparedness, Trump’s administration and Republicans in Congress prioritize propaganda and political revenge. We are less safe because they value power over people. We are less safe as Trump wastes time on social media — obsessing over followers and attacking Americans — instead of doing his job to address income inequality and the mounting crises in housing, healthcare, education, and the environment.
The Choice Before Us
We deserve a government that listens — not one that silences.
We deserve justice — not cruelty.
We deserve democracy — not dictatorship.
Trump and his Republican cronies want to hoard more of what we deserve: our wealth, our rights, and our freedom.
But they underestimate us — because the people are rising.
At People Power United, we believe that real power belongs to the people — and together, we can reclaim it.
👉 Join us to speak out, show up, and build power to hold leaders accountable to the people’s will.
Because when we unite for dignity, equality, and democracy —
No dictator can stand in our way.
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Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests), People Power United
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https://jacobin.com/2025/03/bernie-sanders-paycheck-savings-debate/
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/the-american-system-is-badly-broken/
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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/22/white-house-demolition-sends-shock-waves-spurs-calls-for-pause-00618230
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/trump-universities-compact-agreement-rejected
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Beats the hell out of me why anyone would have ever voted for Trump !