PHYSICALLY
We no longer have have safe & healthy communities, safe schools, or safe homes!
Healthcare: Health insurance and access to quality healthcare are becoming increasingly costly and difficult for many Rhode Islanders.
Since Rhode Island lawmakers adopted virtually all of the programs under the 2010 federal Affordable Care Act, annual insurance premiums have skyrocketed … often by double-digit percentage rate hikes … making health insurance an extreme financial burden for many families.
Worse, as many Ocean Staters have been shifted into government-run Medicaid, and with absurdly low reimbursement rates that have driven many doctors and healthcare organizations out of the system, greatly reducing the supply of available healthcare professionals. This increased Medicaid patient demand, combined with decreased provider supply, has led to massive wait-times for all levels of care.
Family Units at Risk: Extreme radicals on the Left seek to tear your family apart – literally! If parents refuse to affirm certain delusions of their children – including the desire for harmful gender-transitioning procedures – woke LGBTQ activists are working to authorized the State to remove your children from your care … and make them wards of the State. They are even looking to turn many school buildings into 24/7 full-service campuses, that will house children removed from their families.
Perhaps most emblematic of government malfeasance was its physical assault on students during the Covid-19 pandemic. The mask and vaccine mandates imposed by the RI Department of Health and the RI Department of Education as well as certain school districts put our children and school staff directly in harms way.
Without any credible science-based evidence, all-day school mask mandates were imposed upon students, while vaccine mandates were imposed upon healthcare workers and certain education staff.
The school mask mandates recommended by the RI Department of Health during the Covid pandemic, and supported by Governor McKee, caused “irreparable harm” to students, ruled a RI Superior Court judge in a related lawsuit; a lawsuit that also led to a rare public hearing where members of the public could voice their concerns about the harms to their children (watch highlights here). The General Assembly failed in its oversight duties to intervene and protect our kids from this unconstitutional and negligent governmental over-reach.
In that March 2024 public hearing, testimony revealed that masking children (or anyone) for prolonged periods would force them to breath unhealthy air, as defined by OSHA. Yet in July 2024, RIDOH refused to change its regulations to adequately account for actual scientific evidence about potential harms and efficacy when it comes to the safety of students and the public. They just don’t care. Who wins, who loses?
Public safety should be a right for everyone. The Left pretends that crime is mostly a gun issue. In reality, it’s about the government’s failure to enforce our laws. Underprivileged women suffer most from a lack of enforcement, with black women now the fastest-growing demographic for gun ownership.
Protecting our children from drugs and crime should be a top priority to create safe communities. Yet our RI government has failed residents time and time again.
The Left’s recent ‘soft on crime’ push … to not prosecute and to release violent criminals back into society …. makes our homes, streets, businesses, and local communities more dangerous for families. In 2024 the RI General Assembly refused to protect shoppers and businesses by failing to pass legislation that would require jail sentences for “smash & grab” criminals.
Further, weak enforcement of domestic abuse laws and leniency towards known domestic abusers has led to far too many deaths of spouses and partners. Who wins and who loses?
Young students in government-run schools in RI are continually groomed to engage in unsafe and age-inappropriate sexual activity or to consider radical gender transitioning procedures such as chemical castration and surgical mutilation of sexual organs that often cause irreversible physical and emotional harm.
The incidents of bullying, assaults, and other crimes within schools is also on the rise due to the ignorant compliance of woke school officials to the narrative that certain groups of students should not be held accountable for their violent or threatening actions (called ‘restorative justice’).
Lax policies towards student discipline and the number of violent incidents in schools are on the rise, threatening the physical safety of many students and staff … while often there is little to no recrimination for the assaulting perpetrators. The Left’s “restorative justice” mindset forbids schools from reporting many incidents of violence perpetrated by minority students (in order to make the numbers look better); a misguided philosophy that allows criminally-inclined students to remain in schools and on the streets.
As fentanyl and other illegal drugs are the number one killer of 18- to 45-year olds in America, our state government’s lax approach towards drug use, even providing “safe injection sites” for addicts, creates even more lethal concerns for families. The state of Oregon recently rescinded its open-drug-use polices after an alarming rise in the number of drug-related fatalities were recorded.
The legalization of the recreational use of marijuana by our political class also puts young adults at increased risk of psychosis and bi-polar disorders, increasingly leading to attempted suicides. The scientific data about the harms of smoking marijuana is overwhelming, especially for young people, more of whom are now using the drug on a regular basis. Further, the weed smoked today is far more potent, harmful, and addictive than decades ago, as THC concentration levels have dramatically increased as much as 30-times higher!
Transgender Agenda Can Cause Direct Physical Harm: For children and young adults, the chemical castration and surgical mutilation of transgender transitioning procedures often lead to permanent infertility and lifelong medical problems and surgeries.
The transgender policies more and more school district are adopting (at the federal government’s encouragement) that allow boys in girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, bedrooms (on overnight field trips), and athletic fields … puts young girls and women at serious physical risk.
Additionally, persistent assaults by RI lawmakers on our constitutionally guaranteed Second-Amendment rights, means families will have fewer options when it comes to protecting themselves from crime and violent intruders.
- RI’s 2024 so-called “safe storage” legislation would actually make it less safe for families to self-defend their loved ones
Our state’s tyrannical dictates during the pandemic, combined with its lax approach towards crime and drug use … has led to death, permanent disability, or severe medical conditions of family members.