Summary
The Department of Justice has removed 11 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines for businesses, including guidance on COVID-19 masking and accessibility requirements.
Pages detailing retail accessibility features and lodging accommodations were deleted from ADA.gov. The DOJ called the guidelines “unnecessary and outdated,” citing a January executive order from Trump that blamed regulations for inflation.
Acting Assistant Attorney General Mac Warner claimed the removals would help businesses “pass on cost savings to consumers.” This follows previous Republican efforts to limit ADA enforcement.
Americans with Disabilities Act
In all seriousness, you really wouldn’t think that it’d be the Republican Party stripping ADA requirements. Who are the disabled?
A great deal of it is the elderly.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/24/8-facts-about-americans-with-disabilities/
Older Americans are significantly more likely than younger adults to have a disability. Some 46% of Americans ages 75 and older and 24% of those ages 65 to 74 report having a disability, according to estimates from the Census Bureau’s 2021 American Community Survey (ACS). This compares with 12% of adults ages 35 to 64 and 8% of adults under 35.
And who votes Republican?
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/age-generational-cohorts-and-party-identification/
Today, age is strongly associated with partisanship – and this pattern has been in place for more than a decade. Bar chart showing that a majority of registered voters under 30 align with the Democrats; Republicans have the edge among those over 60.
The Democratic Party holds a substantial edge among younger voters, while the Republican Party has the advantage among the oldest groups.
Among voters ages 60 and older, the GOP holds a clear advantage:
- Republican alignment is 10 percentage points higher than Democratic alignment (53% vs. 43%) among voters in their 60s.
- Voters ages 70 to 79 are slightly more likely to be aligned with the GOP (51%) than the Democratic Party (46%).
- About six-in-ten voters 80 and older (58%) identify with or lean toward the GOP, while 39% associate with the Democratic Party.
If you have less education, you’re more-likely to be disabled:
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_tad.pdf
Disability Rates and Employment Status by Educational Attainment
About 16 percent of 25- to 64-year-olds who had not completed high school had one or more disabilities in 2015, compared to 11 percent of those who had completed high school, 10 percent of those who had completed some college, 8 percent of those who had completed an associate’s degree, 4 percent of those who had completed a bachelor’s degree, and 3 percent of those who had completed a master’s or higher degree.
And the less-educated crowd is also more-likely to be voting Republican, especially with Trump:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/14/politics/the-biggest-predictor-of-how-someone-will-vote/index.html
Why education level has become the best predictor for how someone will vote
“The biggest single, best predictor of how someone’s going to vote in American politics now is education level. That is now the new fault line in American politics,” Sosnik told David Chalian on the “CNN Political Briefing” podcast.
Trump’s rise over the past three election cycles, Sosnik argued, “accelerated and completed this political realignment based on education that had been forming since the early ’70s, at the beginning of the decline in the middle class.”
As the US transitions to a 21st century economy, there’s a rift between the people who attain education – “that’s become the basic Democratic Party,” he said, comparing them with people who feel left behind, “that group of voters is now the modern Republican Party base.”
They don’t care that it might disproportionately affect their base anymore, because they now think they don’t need their base of pesky voters.
Yeah, remember Trump telling those Christians “we’ll fix it so you don’t have to vote anymore”. They don’t need their voters when every position down to your city council is directly appointed by your local Lord (Governor).
I don’t know how many times I have to say it. They aren’t worried about votes because elections are done. They are fucking up medicaid and social security too which is considered political suicide. They’ll still have dog and pony elections every couple of years, but Republicans will magically win them all.
Following the Nazi playbook to a t.
I am sure Trump will just start flogging the disabled for entertainment soon.
He already openly mocks them.
He told his nephew who has a disabled son to put his son down. He gives zero fucks.
Bye bye handicap ramps, easy open doors, automatic doors, and anything the help the disabled.
Gotta shovel that money to the top donchaknow
Countdown to “it’s Bidens fault!” when the disabled and elderly trump voters get affected by this…
At least 4 more fucking years of this shit…
