Glen Zazove
The Party of Suffering and Death
(Comments before 2022 do not refer to the following)
To mark the broadcast of the investigation into the January 6th Trump led insurrection, here are just a few ways Republican politicians endanger everyone living and working in the U.S.:
Anti-Gun Control
U.S. Republican politicians have long the embraced the free, unencumbered proliferation of guns, including semi-automatic weapons. Currently, with the courts and Republican State Legislatures loosening or eliminating the few restrictions that were left, we are seeing the result - mass shootings at public events, workplace mass murder, kids with guns, shootouts at shopping malls, more school shootings every year, city neighborhoods ravaged by gun violence, increasing incidents of vigilante justice and racially motivated murder, the use of guns to intimidate democratic legislators, and threats of gun violence leveled at election officials, peaceful protestors, and school board members to name just a few.
Climate Change Denial
For decades, Republicans in the US have been the most vocal climate change deniers. As in the case of guns, climate change deniers in government have successfully staved off or eliminated vital programs to proactively address the problem until it's now too late. Like so many other of their anti-human policies, we are now seeing the result -- severe storms, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes intense heat waves, and devastating wild fires in numbers and at times and places they rarely or never occurred before.
Anti-Vax/Mask
During the height of the pandemic, five Republican State Legislatures actually encouraged workers to remain unvaccinated by extending unemployment benefits to those who had been fired for refusing vaccine and/or mask mandates. Here in Missouri, our republican State Attorney General threatened to sue schools with mask mandates, putting thousands of teachers, children and their families severely at risk. How many adults and children got sick and or died because Republicans couldn't understand that fighting a pandemic is a public health issue and not a political one?
Anti-Healthcare
In a rapidly changing work force, Republicans shot down every attempt to provide affordable healthcare to needy, underemployed and unemployed Americans, even before the Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act. After it was passed, Republicans introduced and voted on legislation to repeal or defund it more than 70 times. Donald Fucking Trump, vowed to repeal it as a campaign promise and replace it with a "better" plan he somehow never revealed. In Missouri, where I live, the Republican legislature refused to expand Medicaid coverage to the states' neediest residents, despite a voter initiative forcing them to do so and delayed implementation until the courts finally intervened.
Sadly, these are just a few examples of the injury, illness, death and destruction that major Republican policy positions have caused here at home and in the world at large. For US citizens, please remember this and vote.
The Party of Suffering and Death
(Comments before 2022 do not refer to the following)
To mark the broadcast of the investigation into the January 6th Trump led insurrection, here are just a few ways Republican politicians endanger everyone living and working in the U.S.:
Anti-Gun Control
U.S. Republican politicians have long the embraced the free, unencumbered proliferation of guns, including semi-automatic weapons. Currently, with the courts and Republican State Legislatures loosening or eliminating the few restrictions that were left, we are seeing the result - mass shootings at public events, workplace mass murder, kids with guns, shootouts at shopping malls, more school shootings every year, city neighborhoods ravaged by gun violence, increasing incidents of vigilante justice and racially motivated murder, the use of guns to intimidate democratic legislators, and threats of gun violence leveled at election officials, peaceful protestors, and school board members to name just a few.
Climate Change Denial
For decades, Republicans in the US have been the most vocal climate change deniers. As in the case of guns, climate change deniers in government have successfully staved off or eliminated vital programs to proactively address the problem until it's now too late. Like so many other of their anti-human policies, we are now seeing the result -- severe storms, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes intense heat waves, and devastating wild fires in numbers and at times and places they rarely or never occurred before.
Anti-Vax/Mask
During the height of the pandemic, five Republican State Legislatures actually encouraged workers to remain unvaccinated by extending unemployment benefits to those who had been fired for refusing vaccine and/or mask mandates. Here in Missouri, our republican State Attorney General threatened to sue schools with mask mandates, putting thousands of teachers, children and their families severely at risk. How many adults and children got sick and or died because Republicans couldn't understand that fighting a pandemic is a public health issue and not a political one?
Anti-Healthcare
In a rapidly changing work force, Republicans shot down every attempt to provide affordable healthcare to needy, underemployed and unemployed Americans, even before the Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act. After it was passed, Republicans introduced and voted on legislation to repeal or defund it more than 70 times. Donald Fucking Trump, vowed to repeal it as a campaign promise and replace it with a "better" plan he somehow never revealed. In Missouri, where I live, the Republican legislature refused to expand Medicaid coverage to the states' neediest residents, despite a voter initiative forcing them to do so and delayed implementation until the courts finally intervened.
Sadly, these are just a few examples of the injury, illness, death and destruction that major Republican policy positions have caused here at home and in the world at large. For US citizens, please remember this and vote.