What kind of people are we?
Twenty-two Mainers recently sat down in the driveway of the Blaine House to call out the immorality of public policy in Maine today. As the Rev. Dr. William Barber II likes to say, the political question of our time is “not about left or right, Democrat or Republican, but about right and wrong.”
Our governor’s stopping the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act – even after the people of Maine specifically voted to expand it – is both anti-democratic and painfully wrong. What kind of people are we? To deny mothers and children access to health care may be standard operating procedure in our country today, but that does not make it moral.
The sit-in at the governor’s mansion was the first action in Maine of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.
When our own government is intentionally cruel to our own children, we are in need of a moral revival. The indigenous peoples upon whose land we live long have known the measure of our mean-heartedness.
Now that we are turning on our own children, perhaps we will wake up to what is being done in our name. We can do much better.
Rabbi Joshua Chasan
Portland
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