Why I Vote "Liberal," Insights on Universal Healthcare

By Nikki Brock Wright

People ask me, why I vote” liberal.”

I vote blue because of my grandmother. Universal Healthcare would have kept her from spending every dime she had trying to make sure my grandfather was well, and she wouldn’t have had to work on a towboat, cooking 3 square meals a day, for 30 men for 30 days straight to make ends meet. And my mother wouldn’t have had to raise herself because of it.

Republicans wouldn’t give it to her then and they won’t now.

I vote blue because she literally went hungry during the depression, when there was no lifeline for people like her, a single mother trying to feed two little children.

Republicans wouldn’t feed her then and they wouldn’t do it now if they had their way.

Those who knew my grandmother know she was the least liberal person you will ever meet. Yet she died not understanding what she could not get when she needed it most. You might say “those things are in the past.” Sixty years later we still don’t have universal healthcare that is not in danger of being dismantled.

Republicans are cutting funding to help the poor all the time.

Sixty years later there is still no universal childcare. People forget. We must remember. That’s why I’m posting this.

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