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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaybe I shouldn't say this but the republicans are becoming (have been?) the party of death.
- no restrictions on guns policies
- killing the ACA and effectively taking healthcare from millions (trying to anyway)
- Medicaid cut backs
- Medicare and SS will be targets next and that will be bad for the older folks
- threats to countries around the world for what seems no good reason - and one has nuclear
- horrible responses to natural disasters
- refusing to do anything to lessen climate change & instead push policies that will make it worse
- using divisive rhetoric and inflaming racial, sexist and homophobic hatred
- tied into hate groups
- doing what it can to roll back civil rights progress.
- the harassment and bullying by their followers
Mods, if this is over the line i understand.
But damn these people are pushing it to the brink - they scare me. They seem to have no limits to how far they will go
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Beakybird
(3,332 posts)- Allowing industries to pollute our air - premature death for millions
- Allowing industries to pollute our water - premature death for millions
- Allowing industries to contaminate our food - premature death for thousands
- Allowing companies to charge exorbitant $$ for drugs is a death sentence
- They want to allow nursing homes to have binding arbitration clauses so they can't be brought to court for abuse and neglect
- They just allowed CHIP insurance to lapse on 9 million children. How many will die?
rurallib
(62,406 posts)Vogon_Glory
(9,117 posts)Don't feel ashamed for thinking that. Despite the presence of forced-birth block in the Republican Party (And by curious coincidence the Forced Birth block also opposes pre-natal health programs as well as child welfare programs that would protect mothers and infants), I have been led to the same conclusion--that if there is a pro-death party, it's today's Republican Party.
TomSlick
(11,097 posts)I prefer to avoid hyperbolic language. But in this case, no I don't think you're over the line.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)it has been true for a long time actually and it will continue to be true. Republicans do NOT represent the interests of Humans. They represent the interests money.
Republicans are a virulent disease that has invaded our society. We need to kill it.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Sick bastards. Sad.
GReedDiamond
(5,311 posts)...back when Nixon sabotaged the Paris peace talks and prolonged the Viet Nam War.
Now they've doubled/tripled/quadrupled down on it.
Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)It's true.
WhiteTara
(29,703 posts)Willie Pep
(841 posts)When you look at the big picture the Republicans are not a pro-life party. They support policies that make the country nastier and less conducive to life. Another thing to list would be suicides which are related to guns, economic hardship and a bullying culture that produces stress and anger. But mass shootings are also a byproduct of the same forces.
A friend of mine once said that the modern era of mass shootings started in the 1980s with workplace shootings (going postal) that were the product of Reagan-era economic policies making workplaces meaner and more stressful. It is possible that this helps to feed into a culture where people take out their problems on others in bursts of anger and violence.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)I suspect that as Republicans dishonestly weasel their way upward into power, there's a steady drip, drip away of any emotions they may have been born with. By the time they make it into Congress they have the emotional qualities of a slab of cast iron.
Anything outside of the individual being is subject to laissez-faire rules.
NotASurfer
(2,149 posts)Party of death...visceral. Cuts through BS rationalization right to the heart of the matter. Im absolutely adding this to my vocabulary.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)nini
(16,672 posts)She was right about everything she said about them.
As much as I miss her I am glad she is not here to the shitstorm we are going through right now.
dchill
(38,471 posts)Trump has just sabotaged their cloaking device.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)Personal enrichment, corporate profits, and a show of power drives them.
Summary:
Laissez-faire trickle-down greed with a healthy dose of arrogant Prosperity Gospel elitism.