Please stop excluding disabled people in your posts about minorities who are being affected by the election results. Disabled people in the US are being affected too and we matter.

People have no idea how terrified every disabled person is. I’m not going to minimize any other group rightfully terrified; I just want people to know there’s a group you’re all forgetting. Republicans have been trying to destroy social security forever. Riled up old folks, a key part of their base, have stopped them so far. But those were “reasonable” republicans like we had 10 years ago. Pre-tea party “burn it all down!” ideological zealots.

Now? There’s nothing to stop them. Except all of us. In the same way we have to protect LGBTQ, women, racial groups, we MUST protect the disabled. Because dismantlement of social security, Medicare and Medicaid are LETHAL to the disabled. Who already constantly struggle financially. If they cut benefits 1%? 5%? 10%? Well when you’re struggling on $800 or $1200 a month… do the math.

And we disabled? We literally can’t march in protest. Because most of us are, well, not able! So we’re dependent on you all to help keep us alive. Because while Republicans might claim empathy for us, they’re priorities are monetary. They’ll couch it in “cutting waste” or making social security stable “longer” or giving power to “states” to run things. “Efficiency” and such are the things they’ll pretend to be seeking. But its just code.

So please, please, help the disabled just as we help LGBTQ, just as we help racial minorities, just as we help women. We’re in this together. But the disabled can’t even go protest in the streets or march on Washington or any of that. We need you all to be our bodies, while we use our only tool: our voices.

Just want to say here, the most you can get on SSI is $733… That’s already not survivable. We can’t afford for it to get cut more. Plus he wants to cap medicaid/medicare coverage. Which means not only do we not get enough to survive on, we’re also going to lose our healthcare. Millions are going to die just because of the ACA repeal alone because we won’t be able to get insurance due to preexisting conditions. You NEED to fight for us because we can’t. I have been stuck at home terrified for the past 3 days planning how to survive for as long as possible and for when I die. This is real. We know its going to happen. We are planning our own funerals. We are already mourning our loved ones. You better fight for us.