For beneath all the manipulations, bold faced lies, and the desperate desire to erase the work of a Black President, that is what today’s GOP are — merchants of death.
They make Judas Iscariot look like a patsy who sold out Jesus for chump change.
Today’s GOP is willing to sell out millions of lives, our lives and the lives of our loved ones, in order to give the fortunate few even more of our tax dollars — monies for which GOP Senators and Representatives will be richly rewarded.
So we watch the spin and lies, the threats and bribery, as they attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act with hubristic cruelty.
If they succeed, people are going to die by the tens of thousands. Many more will suffer — physically, emotionally, and financially. No one will be safe from the destruction the GOP will rain down upon the country.
Personal bankruptcies caused by medical costs will soar again. A million jobs will be lost. One sixth of the US economy will be upended. As rural hospitals close, rural communities will be decimated. Emergency rooms will be pushed past capacity and health care workers will burn out under an unsupportable load.
Homes across the country will know the soul destroying despair of watching loved ones suffer and die, while knowing it all was preventable.
The Death Merchants of the GOP don’t care about any of it. Not what happens to you or me, our families or fellow citizens.
They are committed to legislative murder and must be stopped.
Make phone calls. Show up at your Senator’s office. Attend rallies. March. Raise your voices. Hold main stream media accountable for their false equivalences, normalization of the morally reprehensible, and cowardice.
Above all, do everything to get the Death Merchants out of office. 2018 is coming quickly.
This is our time, our moral responsibility to fight back with everything we have.
We hold millions of lives in our hands. We hold our lives and the lives of our loved ones in our hands. We must not allow them to be taken away.
This is not politics as usual. All the norms we understood have been bent out of all recognition.
This is a battle we can not lose in a war we must win.