The GOP is bad for your health

by | Jun 30, 2020 | 2020 elections, coronavirus, Editor's Blog | 2 comments

Evidence is increasingly clear that Republicans are bad for your health, particularly if you are old, in military, or poor. They have been wrong about almost everything to do with the pandemic. They turned their head when the Russians placed bounties on the heads of American soldiers in Afghanistan. They are suing to end the Affordable Care Act, a move that would strip health care from millions of people in the midst of a global pandemic. Now, they are about cut off unemployment benefits to people whose jobs have disappeared. 

Intelligence reports informed the White House at least as early as March 2019 that Russians were paying Afghan militants and criminals to kill U.S. service members. John Bolton says that he briefed Trump at that time. Trump has taken no action but has instead tried to invite Russia to join the G-7 conference. The incident should be particularly damning for members of North Carolina’s GOP Congressional Delegation. Troops from Fort Bragg have been stationed in Afghanistan throughout the period the bounties have been offered. Several members of the 82nd Airborne, stationed at Fort Bragg, have been killed over the past year. None of the GOP Senators or Members of Congress have condemned the president’s lack of action or his praise of Putin. If you are a soldier, the GOP is bad for your health.

As for addressing the pandemic, Republicans have come out strongly against almost any effort to mitigate the impact even as the disease starts spreading rapidly again. They have ridiculed wearing masks despite the effectiveness of the measure in curbing the spread of the disease. Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest, the GOP nominee of Governor, is suing Governor Roy Cooper for keeping certain businesses closed, despite spikes in incidents in states that opened too early. 

Conservatives told us that we were making worst case scenario predictions when epidemiologists told us that between 250,000 and 1.5 million people could die over two years if we didn’t take precautions. Today, we have almost 130,000 dead in just four months and Trump’s former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration says the death rate will go up. At this rate, we will have more than 200,000 deaths by the end of 2020. Free marketeers are arguing that we need to speed up opening society but polls show strong resistance to opening too soon. People are more concerned about the virus than the economy right now. If you are among those vulnerable to the worst of COVID-19, Republicans are bad for your health.

While the pandemic is both making an increasing number of people sick and costing them their jobs and insurance, the Trump administration is suing to end the Affordable Care Act. If the lawsuit is successful, people with pre-existing conditions could lose their insurance. In addition to people who lose their employment-related insurance, even more would have difficulty getting insurance. Republicans in Congress are all supporting the lawsuit, indicating that they’re bad for your health if you depend on the Obamacare exchanges or are at risk of losing your employer-based insurance. 

Finally, Republicans in North Carolina made the state the worst state in the nation to be unemployed. They slashed unemployment benefits while the economy was strong and now that it’s weak, people will be left out in the cold. Not only is the amount of assistance the stingiest in the nation, the time that people are eligible to receive benefits is less than half the national standard. If you need money for things like food, housing, or medical care, well, then Republicans are bad for your health. 

As pressing issues around health and financial security threaten the well-being of North Carolinians, the GOP is turning its back on the people it’s supposed to serve. Our military defend our country, but the GOP won’t defend our soldiers, marines, or sailors against foreign aggression. Instead, they’ll continue to prop up a morally corrupt president whose primary interest is his own re-election. The same Republicans are willing to allow people to become uninsured during a pandemic and unwilling to offer any help in mitigating its spread. The GOP has become a party out of touch with the  American people and increasingly bad for our health. If voters are self-interested, we will see massive regime change in November. It can’t come soon enough.  

2 Comments

  1. Edwin Finch

    Why does Trump do things that lead to Americans deaths?

    — via violation of CDC guidelines on the coronavirus? Like not wearing a mask for example? And by holding massive public gatherings?

    — via not having a National / international strategy to defend us in this coronavirus war?

    — via silence on probable Russian/Taliban bounty on our troops?

    — via use of military style operations against peaceful demonstrators?

    — via promotion of armed infiltrators into demonstrations to “take back your country” from Democratic governors?

    — via classifying BLM movement with terrorist? and neo-Nazis with torches shouting “Jews will not replace us”, as fine people?

    — via elimination of health care to the needy?

    — via withdrawal from nuclear agreements, without any new agreements to replace them? that escalates the risk of nuclear conflict?

    Why does he do it? Here are some plausible reasons:

    1- Q: Is it that he does not know any better? – A: Not likely. But then again, his niece says the Trump family raised “the world’s most dangerous man”.

    2- Q: Is he mIsinformed? – A: Not likely. But he likes to say so, that he “never heard”.

    There must be a very effective “electronic sound canceling device” in that orange thing on his head so that messages from his top advisors never reach his ears. — or there is a serious neurological disorder that blocks what his ears hear from getting to his brain.

    3- Q: He wants to take Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” to a new level? – A: Absolutely Yes. — as long as it is about the 1st and 2nd amendment rights of the Trump Tribe, —– but peaceful demonstrators in the BLM movement are “terrorist” to “Barr”.

    4- Q: He is incapable of Understanding science & Health protocols? – A: Yes. Just like professors at Trump University.

    5- Q: It is always better politics to go with your ‘gut’ and ‘rally emotion’ rather than with what is science and good sense for everyone? – A: Trump thinks so!

    6- Q: The “Trump Tribe” needs some new talking points to continue the “Us vs Them” National Division? – A: Probably

    7- Q: Trump.Org can make good money selling all its “snake oil” products. Right? – A: Of course. (Why else would Trump and Trumparerats be promoting “hydrocloroquinne” and injecting detergents).

    8- Q: Because of demographics, Demon Democrats will die at a higher rate than members of the Trump Tribe GOP (Gross Oligarch Party), won’t they? – A: What a “perfect” side effect!!!!!

    9- Q: It is opposite of what Obama would do? – A: Wow, Yea!!!!! – Yes,Yes,Yes!

    10- Q: If he sticks his head in the sand he does not have to see people dying. Right? — A: Absolutely. That way he does not have information to count the known coronavirus deaths.

    11- Q: Running “yellow lights”, particularly the ones of the CDC and science experts, is a good thing? — A: Not if we can help it! But his core followers believe it gives Trump an advantage to win the “drag” race in November and to continue the “demolition derby” of our democracy for another 4 years.

    12- Q: He can “bond better” with Kim Un in his next love letter? – A: This has gone a little too far, don’t you think?

    #GUMPTION

    General United Movement: “Purge Trumpism: Improve Our Nation”

    BID❤️N AMERICA

    (Bid love in America)

    BID N BIDEN

    (Bid in Biden)

    Edwin O Finch

  2. Daryl Bowman

    Amen. It is a shame so many folks vote against their best interests. And will continue to.

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