Is it just me, or does today's Republican Party make you hope there really is a Hell?
I know, they are trying their best to make our planet and our country a living Hell for more and more people, but that doesn't count.
Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia wants to bring back child labor. You know, to make the poor kids who get free school lunches "earn" them and learn the value of work. Just like Jesus would have wanted. Or Scrooge, pre-visitations.
Pay people a living wage so if they are working full time they can actually support themselves and their families? No, let's subsidize the corporations who are making record profits, largely by not paying people, by having the taxpayers provide food stamps, temporary assistance for needy families, free and reduced school lunch, Earned Incomed tax credits, etc.
Then let's complain about how many people are "mooching" off the taxpayer and point fingers and get everyone mad at the unemployed, or under-employed, or sick, or poor, or infirm, or immigrants, you know all the people with the REAL power in this country, who hold ALL the money. Just like Jesus would have done.
Tell lies as a matter of course. About the poor. About the environment. About the economy. Be disrespectful. Be belligerent and angry and condescending. Be mean. Obstruct at unprecedented levels, through use of the filibuster, by offering endless amendments and "poison pills" to the most ordinary of legislation, legislation that used to be considered "no brainers" and receive quick bipartisan action. Then when called on it, or drive the majority to take action, scream bloody murder. The modern Republican, for all their bellicosity, are most expert at playing the victim.
Spew hate against gays or others who are not "like you". And then scream if you can't make your hatred and prejudice the law of the land. Or if someone calls you on your prejudice. That somehow if you are not allowed to fully practice your hatred and make it legal, that you somehow are the victim.
So for these and many other reasons, as you watch the modern Republicans in action and listen to them, you really hope there is a Hell. Even if it means being pressed into duty as a demon whose job would be to stick in the pitchfork. And you know where it would be fitting for it to go.
I know, they are trying their best to make our planet and our country a living Hell for more and more people, but that doesn't count.
Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia wants to bring back child labor. You know, to make the poor kids who get free school lunches "earn" them and learn the value of work. Just like Jesus would have wanted. Or Scrooge, pre-visitations.
Pay people a living wage so if they are working full time they can actually support themselves and their families? No, let's subsidize the corporations who are making record profits, largely by not paying people, by having the taxpayers provide food stamps, temporary assistance for needy families, free and reduced school lunch, Earned Incomed tax credits, etc.
Then let's complain about how many people are "mooching" off the taxpayer and point fingers and get everyone mad at the unemployed, or under-employed, or sick, or poor, or infirm, or immigrants, you know all the people with the REAL power in this country, who hold ALL the money. Just like Jesus would have done.
Tell lies as a matter of course. About the poor. About the environment. About the economy. Be disrespectful. Be belligerent and angry and condescending. Be mean. Obstruct at unprecedented levels, through use of the filibuster, by offering endless amendments and "poison pills" to the most ordinary of legislation, legislation that used to be considered "no brainers" and receive quick bipartisan action. Then when called on it, or drive the majority to take action, scream bloody murder. The modern Republican, for all their bellicosity, are most expert at playing the victim.
Spew hate against gays or others who are not "like you". And then scream if you can't make your hatred and prejudice the law of the land. Or if someone calls you on your prejudice. That somehow if you are not allowed to fully practice your hatred and make it legal, that you somehow are the victim.
So for these and many other reasons, as you watch the modern Republicans in action and listen to them, you really hope there is a Hell. Even if it means being pressed into duty as a demon whose job would be to stick in the pitchfork. And you know where it would be fitting for it to go.
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