Roskam and US culture of death

Roskam and US culture of death

My congressman Peter Roskam (IL-6) ignores every vital issue of life and death facing our district, America and the world. In his twelve years in Congress, he's never promoted peace over our trillion dollar perpetual wars of carnage and failure in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen and others. Indeed, Roskam, at the behest of Israel and Saudi Arabia, has been a leading proponent for blowing up the 2015 six-power nuclear agreement with Iran, arguably the most significant anti war, pro peace initiative in this century.

When it comes to critical action to curtail catastrophic domestic gun violence, Roskam literally takes the NRA money...and runs from district residents trying to question him on his disheartening inaction.

On health care, Roskam first worked to keep 20,000,000 uninsured from getting insurance under the Affordable Health Care Act. Having failed in that endeavor, he's spent the next five years working to degrade, defund, deny its keeping millions from bankruptcy, declining health, even death from the most heartless medical delivery system in the industrialized world. That level of cruelty is truly astonishing.

Climate change and its threat to our survival never appears on Roskam's weather radar. Though not an obvious, tangible element of our death culture, we, through our legislators, ignore it at our peril.

War, guns, health care, climate change...all part of the American death culture enabled by Congressman Peter Roskam.

Walt Zlotow

Glen Ellyn