There are certain professions where you simply don’t care about a caregiver or first responder’s politics.
Emergency heart surgery? I don’t care who the surgeon voted for. Being robbed? Send police — regardless of their political party — ASAP, please. Stuck in a burning building? Hopefully they send all the best firefighters, and not just the ones I ideologically align with.
That basic trust is supposed to be a two-way street. We citizens entrust our safety and wellbeing to these people, and in turn, we expect them to uphold the fabric of society — regardless of whether we or they are Democrats or Republicans.
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Because this trust is paramount to a functioning society, when that trust is broken in a public, vile, and disgusting manner, there must be consequences.
And those consequences can hurt.
Just ask Lexie Lawler, a nurse in Florida who has learned the evergreen life lesson that
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