An exhausted nation can still push for change

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : My first column for the Gazette rightfully pointed out that "where Iowa was once recognized as nice for its progressive ideals with civil rights pioneer Edna Griffin in 1948 (who preceded Rosa Parks), The Des Moines Human Rights Commission in 1951 (which preceded LBJ's Civil Rights Act of 1964) and legal recognition of same-sex marriage in 2009 (which preceded Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015), it is now recognized by outsiders and short-term residents as a place of complacency, where discrimination and prejudice are tolerated in favor of supposed cordiality."
45% : What's next on the docket for the Supreme Court is the right to contraception and same-sex marriage, according to Vice President Kamala Harris.
43% : Recent rulings by the highest court in the country have directly disregarded the wants and needs the American public has expressed, and clear set precedent, spitting in the face of the people who are most at risk to literally die by their decisions -- and here are the facts to back it up: 61 percent of Americans believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases, according to the Pew Research Center.

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