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Have you read Bernie Sander’s plan for disability rights?!?!?!?!

https://berniesanders.com/issues/fighting-for-disability-rights/

Some choice excerpts:

Guaranteeing health care, including mental health care and home- and community-based services and supports without waitlists, asset or income restrictions, as a human right to everyone in America.

Protecting and expanding the Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs by reversing the Trump Administration’s attack on SSDI/SSI, ending the massive disability application backlog, putting a stop to SSI’s draconian asset test and marriage penalty, and raising the SSI benefit level to 125 percent of the poverty level, lifting millions out of poverty.

Aggressively enforcing the Supreme Court’s Olmstead decision, including for people with mental illness. As President, Sanders will work to enforce the Supreme Court’s landmark Olmstead decision protecting the rights of people with disabilities to get support in the community. The plan places particular priority on the humanitarian crisis in our country created by the incarceration of people with mental illness, leveraging Olmstead to ensure states fund the voluntary, community-based mental health services that can save lives and keep people in the community.

Using executive authority to reject both renewals of and new proposals from states to place disability and aging services under the control of for-profit managed care organizations, including reversing Iowa’s disastrous experiment with for-profit Medicaid privatization.

Create a National Office of Disability Coordination, run by a person with a disability, focused on coordinating and making disability policy to advance the full inclusion of people with disabilities, including ensuring every aspect of our public resources are ADA compliant and that the civil rights of people with disabilities are protected and expanded.

Ending subminimum wage for workers with disabilities while guaranteeing jobs and living wages in the community for all.

Prioritizing accountability in law enforcement interactions with people with disabilities. All too often, people with disabilities, especially people of color with disabilities, face violence from law enforcement. This requires more than just training – it requires accountability. Approximately half of all people who die in police-involved shootings have a disability. In order to protect the rights of people with disabilities, we intend to make discriminatory law enforcement interactions with people with disabilities a major enforcement priority of the Civil Rights Division and dedicate staff to focus specifically on this problem.

Require and fund police officer training on implicit bias, cultural competency, de-escalation, crisis intervention, adolescent development, and how to interact with people with mental and physical disabilities.

Work with teachers, school administrators, and the disability rights movement to end restraint and seclusion in schools through passage of the Keeping All Students Safe Act.

Stop the criminalization of homelessness and spend nearly $32 billion over the next five years to end homelessness. This includes doubling McKinney-Vento homelessness assistance grants to build permanent supportive housing, and $500 million to provide outreach to homeless people to help connect them to available services. In the first year of this plan, 25,000 of the Housing Trust Fund units will be prioritized for housing the homeless.

Bernie Sanders has been listening to us.  It’s right there in his plans.  This is...I’m gonna cry.

In the upcoming primary elections, if you care about disabled people at all, please please please vote for Bernie Sanders.  As a disabled person, I’m telling you: we need people like him in power.