Oh my god. I just realized that Repub politicians not only want the pandemic to continue in general,

[LaMouffette]

since that will make Biden look bad, but it seems to me that they also specifically want their own constituents to lose loved ones to Covid because they know that they, the Republican politicians, will be able to direct their grieving voters' anger against Biden and the Dems.

The rising surge in Covid deaths, especially among Republican Americans, is good news for the GOP. The more deaths, the more outrage, which is how they get themselves elected. Before TFG, I wouldn't have thought them capable of such cruel cynicism, but now, I wonder.

They must be banking on enough of their constituents not dying of Covid to still get elected, with the added insurance of voter suppression bills and their efforts to make it possible for Republican-controlled state legislatures to toss out voting results that do not favor Republican candidates.

Yikes.

[iemanja]

1. they don't care if their constituents die

because they plan on making themselves the winners despite receiving a minority of the votes.

[LaMouffette]

5. If only there were a way to make Republican voters realize this. But how?

[iemanja]

16. Their constituents don't care either

They want the liberals, people of color, and LGBT Americans owned. However their worldview prevails, that's fine by them.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Yes they have weaponized the pandemic, deaths, masks for political gain.

The deaths are just civilian collateral damage in their quest for permanent power.

[LaMouffette]

7. And as long as they keep their voters addicted to Fox News,

their scheme will never be discovered.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Fox News is the propaganda agency of the GOP. Designed to rob people of independent thought

and to create an alternate reality in which the GOP can maintain permanent power.

Owned by Murdoch who is trying to bring down democracy in the US, Europe and Australia.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. They dont need their constituents to keep office, seriously. No red state is going to certify

any election they lose from here on.

Watch...

[bluestarone]

6. IF they succeed in controlling state house's

We will be in deep do-do. I fear you're correct. I'm not exactly sure how this works, BUT 22 could be the year of years for this country!

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. I am certain that chaos is going to break out, all because of loyalty to the

dumbest and most corrupt human being alive.

I will fight. We will all have to.

[bluestarone]

14. Don't know where you will be fighting, BUT

IF they succeed in their BULLSHIT a lot of us better be ready to FIGHT with a NO HOLDS BARRED attitude.

[LaMouffette]

8. I wonder if some Repub politicians MIGHT find a conscience (and a backbone) once TFG goes to

the "Great Golf Resort in the Sky."

Once that happens, maybe they will revert back to actually caring about the democracy . . . naaaaah. Probably no chance of that.

Okay. Gotta get off DU for a while and go hug my furry kids after depressing the hell out of myself with my post!

[viva la]

4. I find the GOP and anti-vaxxer and fundamentalist attitude to the pandemic to be frankly horrifying

It's like they no longer have any human responses except cynical glee (the GOP) and free-range rage (the anti-vaxxers) and nihilism (the fundies).

They seem in an alternate universe where you celebrate your father's death because "God must have wanted another angel" and you are consumed with destroying yourself because "that will own the libs," and if you're the GOP, you think that if you can just get the survivors to blame Biden, that'll make enough rage in them to make up for the loss of all those Trump voters who have gone to be with God or wherever they've gone.

It's just appalling. It's like watching zombies rip each other apart.

[budkin]

10. As long as those deaths benefit them politically they are ALL IN

ALL IN

[PTWB]

11. It's good news for everyone.

People who refuse the vaccine are dying at a rate of 10 to 1.

[gratuitous]

13. I think Democrats win on messaging this

We're seeing yet another spike in Covid rates, and the U.S. is getting another lesson in exponential growth and its practical application to the spread of disease. Those suffering the most, of course, are the unvaccinated. Which party has been militating against vaccination? It hasn't been Democrats. Which party's supporters are more likely to be unvaccinated? Again, not Democrats.

So, Mr. and Mrs. America, you're upset by another wave of pandemic infections? Worried for yourself, a relative, a friend, that the infection will spread to you or them? Republicans are to blame. Republicans have been gambling with your lives for political gain. You want this nightmare to end? Vote Democratic.

[Mr. Ected]

15. The Republicans know damn well what is real and what is fantasmal

The Trump crowd f/k/a the Tea Party have grafted themselves onto the Republican Party and have taken over the host.

Rather than deal with reality, they use it to pound Democrats, play-acting through their tenures in Congress rather than legislating. It's Kabuki Theater for a throng of insentients.