GOP is the party of death

It wasn’t just the Republican president who dismissed, mislead and lied to the nation about pandemic, allowing it to ravage America like no other industrialized country. Virtually the entire Republican Party joined in his assault on truth, candor, inclusiveness and urgency from the get-go. Republican Senators, Congressmen, Governors largely supported the president’s game plan for re-election and continued Senate control based on dismissing pandemic. Re-opening the economy too soon, denigrating the wearing of masks, refusing to adopt a national strategy, indeed, dividing Americans by party, all contributed to 7,497,256 infected, of which 212,696 have died, by October 1. That makes the Republican Party the party of death.

But the Republican death cult goes beyond pandemic. The entire Republican Party opposed insuring 40,000,000 without health insurance when Democrats proposed the Affordable Care Act in 2009. Tho passed and implemented in 2010, their ghoulish opposition delayed its start for a year and ensured that only half of the 40 million were given a health care safety net. They’ve spent the past decade taking dozens of congressional votes and filing federal lawsuits to abolish it entirely, without any alternative whatsoever. That makes the Republican Party the party of death.

Frequent hurricanes and massive flooding in the east, unrelenting firestorms in the west make no dent on the Republican Party when it comes to climate change. The environmentalists will destroy the economy, they argue in near unison, refusing to let go of fossil fuel to embrace green energy. How they can ignore the existential climate catastrophe awaiting their own children and grandchildren defies understanding. That makes the Republican Party the party of death.

The Republican Party has increased my chances of contracting, even dying from pandemic. They put my children and grandchildren at grave risk from climate change denial.

Don’t tell me the Republican Party is conservative. They are radical in the most important life sustaining issues of our time. They are an existential threat to all, including themselves and their future generations. Until they change, they are the party of death.