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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, March 8, 2021

GOP Death Cult

 Let's run through the ways that the GOP wants to kill Americans:

- Unlimited access to guns, including preventions on people with mental illnesses or restraining orders from being banned from owning guns.

- Restricting access to health care, by not taking advantage of the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act and then trying to destroy the ACA when they had the chance.

- Rolling back regulations on pollutants, including ridiculously toxic ones like lead and mercury.

- Refusing to monitor Rightist extremist groups who have a long history of killing Americans.

And here cometh Covid. The GOP wants to let that kill you, even if a few more months of mask wearing will likely get us through to the other side. My wife and I are scheduled to get our Fauci Ouchies tomorrow. Hopefully Johnson & Johnson, but I'll take what I can get. That will still mean several more weeks of masking.  And that is fine. 

Just as we are getting a handle on this thing, the GOP wants to rollback our best chance at saving lives. They say it's freedom, but it's really more reminiscent of a tantrum. 

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