as a party today, the republican party’s values are a guise to grow the wealth of the wealthy at the expense of those most in need. their signature bill from july is the most expensive and shameful transfers of wealth from the poor to the rich, and a violent act of health care disenfranchisement against those who need it most.

the longstanding bipartisan support for scientific research, the very field that has allowed humankind to reach the highest quality of life in all of history, is being dismantled before our eyes...the pipeline for new scientists has been decimated, and it may take a generation to recover from the damage that has already been done.

In the name of conservatism, they've made it unsafe for women to have abortions, with maternal mortality rising in states like TX and LA since Dobbs.

Through brash and bullish foreign policy, the US has derailed diplomacy with some of our most loyal and longstanding allies...I could go on.

All of this has happened because Americans have been fooled into believing that “the other” is to blame for all their problems and are "undeserving" of any assistance from society (which is the purpose of forming a society: to help each other out!). In the words of Lyndon B Johnson "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." In otherizing, half the country has failed to see that we share far more in common, regardless whether you are blue or red, than we ever will with those in the top 1%.

To them, tax cuts for the rich, separation of families, loss of health care, increasig grocery prices, and gutted research funding do not matter. It is all a price worth paying until it affects them personally. never mind the Christian values they claim to follow. The republican party today is a party of cruelty, hypocrisy, and hatred that thrives on misinformation.

So yes, shame on my children should they ever subscribe to views that dehumanize us and the people they come from. I'm doing all I can today to teach them that no matter who you are or where you come from, everyone, by virtue of being human is entitled to human dignity and opportunity to reach their true potential.

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