Republicans Are Members Of An Anti-America Party

 

Republicans used to be the party that offered conservative answers to American problems, and they were willing to negotiate and compromise for the good of the country. None of that is true anymore. They no longer care about the problems of the American people or the country's democratic system. They only care about getting and retaining power. They have become the anti-America party.

The following is part of a post by Juan Williams in The Hill:

The self-destruction of the party is evident in the GOP’s voting record in Congress.

In the last year, every congressional Republican voted against a bill to help the country recover from the economic damage caused by COVID-19.

Republicans also overwhelmingly opposed an infrastructure bill favored by most Americans.

Now the GOP is opposed to President Biden’s Build Back Better bill to lower taxes for the middle class and help with child care.

Last month, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) apparently shrugged off a question about a Republican agenda to help the country move forward.

A donor at a private dinner asked McConnell about what kind of platform the GOP might actually propose, according to Axios.

McConnell, Axios reported, replied by essentially dismissing the idea that the GOP should even consider doing such a thing, when it could instead make hay just by hitting Democrats.

Republicans in the Senate, led by Utah’s Mike Lee, recently threatened a government shutdown to oppose the Biden administration’s mandate that larger businesses must require their employees to either get vaccinated or have weekly COVID-19 tests.

Opposing a mandate for vaccination is legitimate. Allowing a deadly vaccine hesitancy to grow among Republicans to score political points is worthy of scorn.

That indifference to public good leads to the conclusion that the GOP wants to collapse faith in government to gain support for a coup attempt in 2024.

The Atlantic recently featured the headline “January 6 was Practice.”

Barton Gellman writes this chilling synopsis:

“For more than a year now, with tacit and explicit support from their party’s national leaders, state Republican operatives have been building an apparatus of election theft. ... They are driving out or stripping power from election officials who refused to go along with ... the Big Lie.”

Last week, a group of academic and Democratic political strategists surveyed by The New York Times’s Thomas B. Edsall almost unanimously agreed that “the Republican Party under the leadership of Trump is a threat to democracy.”

That finding is consistent with a November letter to Congress by more than 150 scholars sounding the alarm for the future of government by and for the people.

They wrote that “this is no ordinary moment” for American democracy, but a “moment of great peril and risk,” produced by the January insurrection and efforts by Republicans nationwide to seize control of vote-counting for future elections.

Biden recently hosted the first ever White House "Summit for Democracy."

He warned of threats to global democracy that include “voices that seek to fan the flames of societal division and political polarization.”

He had every right to include Republicans in the United States.

The time has come for every American, including the president, to stand up and act before it is too late.