Republican Issues Make Me Crazy
"Pro-life" (no to abortion) AND anti-life (yes to guns)? both at the same time? Really?
In my opinion, Americans have been in an abusive relationship with Republican leadership for years. Abusive means putting money and power above human values such as decency, fairness, health, intelligence and kindness.
Today (May 31, 2022) I read two things in The Hill.
President Biden … called on “rational” Senate Republicans … to nudge lawmakers toward a deal on gun restrictions as the tragic deaths of 19 students and two teachers continue to move the nation.
And
The Memo: Guns and abortion threaten to become midterm issues
Rational Republicans? Guns and abortion? I hope I’m the average American because I’m losing patience to rationalize this abusive insanity.
I’ve tried. Usually I can respond to normal confusion with understanding because I know the world is complex. And that’s what I and many others have been doing for the past 7 years.
But today when I saw Biden pleading for rationality in the US Senate — stop and let this sink in — and the idea that Republicans now want two deeply opposed things at the same time, pro-guns and anti-abortion, I know I can’t hold all this in my head anymore.
At some moment you realize that hope can’t survive without getting up out of your easy chair and taking a stand.
No longer will I try to rationalize the takeover of a nation by people driven by money and power who are running roughshod over women’s rights and who have no real concern for life, all in the name of being pro-life. It’s irrational beyond belief.
They say it takes a woman 7 tries to leave an abusive relationship. I’ve also heard that a woman has to be asked 7 times to run for office before she’ll do it.
Today I’m thinking of asking women voters 7 times each, to vote in our county’s November election for sane leadership that will actually benefit their families’ lives.
I agree with Mary's comments. I hope hope hope Democrats get to the polls for the mid-terms, but I fear the economic issues will take precedence.
The one and only think that is clear in my thinking is, our battle results happen at the polls. There is no reasoning with unreasonable, greedy, power seeking, Neanderthals,