Thoughts and Prayers For the Children About to Be Stripped of Their Healthcare

The forces of evil are working very hard to strip innocent children of their human right to healthcare in the United States of America. It's tragic. It's cruel. It's made worse by the fact that so few people are even trying to stop it.We've all been sitting here passively watching Satan's army perform its labors. They are lifting up their pitchforks. They are hefting their tridents. They're chiseling away at all the social safety nets that prevent children from enduring unspeakable misery.They want a world of misery to descend upon us.They want children hungry. They want children in cages. They want children suffering.“Not all of them!” screams the demon chorus. “It's wrong for you to say 'all' because that's a sweeping generalization. Some children will be just fine. Also, not everyone is standing aside. Many of us are handing out pencils even as we're stripping kids of millions of dollars of resources. We want credit for our charitable giving. Shame on you! Shame!”So it continues like the wash cycle of a laundry room run by the unclaimed children who grew to adulthood. They're slowly going blind because of the lye.“You have to work so hard you don't have time to think. You don't have time to question whether life doesn't have to be this miserable. The reason you don't have things is because of the inadequacy of your labor. Work! Work! Work!”Everybody knows that this is what we're supposed to believe. They condition us with the righteousness of our society from the first second we can breathe.Still, there's some part of me that grieves.We're trained to be at war with ourselves. We're trained to reject the idea of charity. Then we need charity. Then when people give us insufficient charity, we're supposed to be pleased.If you are among the people who go to church, perhaps you could request a prayer from the priest.“Can you offer some thoughts and prayers to all the children who are about to die because they're about to be stripped of the programs that keep them alive?”I don't go to church, so I don't know how church works. However, I've talked with priests. I got in an argument with one when he compared mass shootings to drunk driving. I screamed profanities at his face.The next time he saw me he smirked. I think he thought the gesture was designed as an offering of peace. But to me it looked like he felt secure in his power and he'd never change.“Resist if you want, this is the way of things.”If you have a better relationship, go and ask your priest. Show up at the service.“Father, will you offer a prayer to the children the Republican bill is about to kill? Can we recognize the suffering that's about to be inflicted? We're not going to do anything else, so can we offer thoughts and prayers? Or would you prefer that we all pretended it wasn't happening?”Maybe bring a box of sand to the church and stick your head in it. Mumble words about your decency as loud as you can. Loud enough so that even God can hear.You better be loud about making your intentions clear.Because it's for damn sure that God can see. God can see your cruelty. He knows what you're stripping from those in need.And for what?More money for billionaires.The rich people get money.The suffering children get thoughts and prayers.But in the United States of America they don't even get that much. Thoughts and prayers are saved for when the children are dead. If you offered thoughts and prayers to children who were still alive, they might develop a sense of self-worth.Self-worth is fatal to abuse. If a child thinks he's good, he might learn to stand up for himself. So, the church knows they must be perpetually beaten down.“You're a sinner. You're flawed. You have the devil inside you. All the suffering you've endured in this world is your fault.”That's what they say.Then when the child is gone, they stand over their grave. They cry acid and say, “Thoughts and prayers for the deceased.”Because you only get to be revered when you're gone. Even death is leveraged as a lesson to the living. You have to keep being obedient. You have to keep carrying on. They demand our labor even though our labor is never good enough.You have to work so hard you never pause to think, “If our labor is wrong, then why do they insist we must keep going on? If we're wrong, why don't they show us a better way? If what we're doing is useless, why do they scream for it each and every day?”You have to work so hard there is no time for thought.Imagine if you thought so much there was no time for work?Where would the rewards be distributed then? My guess is the world would come to look a lot more like heaven.But that's not the world that we have today. Today, the Republicans are about to take children's healthcare away. They're going to take their food and shelter too. They're going to take everything, but they're not giving any of it to you.It's all going to the billionaires who never have enough. The rest of us will keep working until our candles are snuffed.Light a candle for me.Light candles for all the children who are about to meet their destiny.If you attend a church, lift your trembling hand and ask, “Can we offer some thoughts and prayers to all the people who are about to reach the promised land at last?”If the priest looks confused and says, “Who?”Remind him that he participated in the death sentence too.Let's remind everyone that judgment day comes for us all. One day we'll have to answer for our inaction. One day even the billionaires will fall.But today it's the children who suffer the most. 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