Republicans say they love “ opportunity ” and “ pulling yourself up by your bootstraps ,” but to take advantage of most genuinely meaningful economic opportunities in America these days requires a college education , and they ’ ll also be the first to tell you they hate college professors , students , free university education , and stand behind policies that have created a nation of college-debt peons . And now they ’ re banning and burning books , while driving teachers out of the profession in state after state .
Republicans say they love “ democracy ” and a “ republican form of government ” ( to quote this nation ’ s Founders ), but they hate the idea of everybody voting . Republican-controlled states — and exclusively Republicancontrolled states — have passed literally hundreds of laws over the past few years to make it harder and harder for people to participate in our democratic republic by voting or even getting citizen referendums on the ballot .
Every year they purge millions of voters — predominantly in Democratic-heavy areas — off the voting rolls ( since that practice was legalized by 5 corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court in 2018 ).
Republicans say they love the American tradition of political dissent , but hate people protesting the police murders of unarmed Black people . “ BLM ,” in fact , has become a slur on Fox News and in Republican circles .
Republicans say they love the police , but have gone out of their way over the years to militarize our police forces , but hate any efforts to get weapons of war and “ cop-killer bullets ” off our streets . They openly promote , in fact , armed militia movements that are illegal in all 50 states and openly brag that one day soon they ’ ll be the vanguard of a “ second civil war ” in which they ’ ll be killing cops and politicians . Not to mention their ongoing defense of the January 6th attackers who killed two capitol police officers and put another 140 in the hospital .
Republicans say they love entrepreneurs and small , local businesses , but they hate laws that protect small businesses from predatory pricing and monopoly by corporate behemoths . Every effort at anti-trust enforcement since 1983 , when Reagan instructed the DOJ and SEC to stop enforcing the anti-trust laws for all but the most egregious violations , have been opposed by Republican lawmakers .
Republicans say they love the flag , but , as Jillian Berman notes at Huffington Post : “ Ninety-four percent or $ 3.6 million worth of the flags imported into the U . S . last year came from China , according to data from the U . S . Census Bureau . “ While
most flags are “ made in the USA ,” the materials they are made from , in many cases , also come from China .
Republicans claim to love nature , but oppose every effort to protect our parks , wild places , and environment . When Reagan ’ s Interior Secretary James Watt was asked why he was selling off federally owned wild-lands to mining and drilling companies for pennies on the dollar , he said the environmental destruction wouldn ’ t matter because Jesus was going to return any day now and “ make all things new .”
Along those same lines , Republicans claim to love Jesus , but they hate his teachings . In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus warned against praying in public , but Republicans are the first to grab a microphone and jump on stage to lead a prayer . In the Matthew 25 Parable of the Goats and Sheep , Jesus explicitly says that the only way to hang out with him in heaven is to feed the hungry , clothe and house the homeless , have compassion on those in prison , and heal the sick , yet every effort to do any of those things are shot down by Republicans in Congress and state legislatures .
Republicans claim to “ love our fellow man ” but are the first to demonize people because of the color of their skin , the country they came from , or the religion they practice if it ’ s not fundamentalist white supremacist Christianity .
And , for Republicans , the “ fellow man ” part of that appears to literally only apply to men . They ’ re passing laws all across the nation to insert police , judges , and even vigilantes into the private decisions women must make around birth control , pregnancy , and abortion .
Republicans claim to love the family and support the difficult work of raising children . But they don ’ t stop at wanting to control , regulate , and maintain power over women , nonwhite people and non-Christians : now they ’ re using the power
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