and couldn't "stand on his own feet" at all. Somebody cleaned up when he spilled his juice(or failed to...some of that anti-choice craziness back in VA seems to suggest mother issues.) Someone once helped him tie his shoes. Someone taught him the phrase "stand on his own two feet" and someone worse taught him to use it as a weapon against the less-fortunate. As Elizabeth Warren once said "He didn't get here on his own."(Nobody does)
Early on in my disability radicalization, I thought it was a shame that most people forgot how much help they needed as small children, being as how it made the continued existence of such needs in disabled people to be an unfathomable assault on human dignity, etc. What began as a moment of...whimsy has become a lot more as I've watched our government lose empathy and mistake an overall hardness for strength.
Immigrants founded this country and immigrants keep building it every day.
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