Imagine a country where people live in the rubble of smashed buildings, contraception is banned, vaccination is not available and the leader who could fix all this won’t stop causing further wreckage because he would then be jailed for previous crimes.
Yes, it’s Gaza. All summed up in a picture shown by CNN in late August. A woman living in rubble rocking a makeshift cradle containing her partially paralyzed young son in 100-degree heat, her other nine children huddled behind her, the boy stricken by newly resurgent polio, vaccines impossible to deliver to the other 400,000 people estimated to need them, and Mr. Netanyahu in need of prolonging the war until Trump is elected to help him stay in power.
This could be a vision of America after Nov. 5, if Trump is elected president. Spreading wreckage created by increasingly ferocious effects of climate change, an anti-vax kook (RFK) angling to be Trump’s head of the US Department of Health and Human Services, abortion and contraception banned nationwide by red-state male legislators and Project 2025, and Trump a convicted felon who will never leave the White House to face jail time if he gets elected president next month.
America may sink to the wreckage level of Gaza and stay there. Our country is now trying to repair the damage done by one of the worst, most expensive hurricanes (Helene) in our history — while another one is on its way. As these catastrophes get worse and worse and more and more frequent, eventually the costs of recovery could become too overwhelming to sustain.
The key to preventing all this is to vote for Kamala Harris for president. End America’s Trump-World/MAGA/COVID 2025 nightmare once and for all.
David Milne
Thurston County
