Maybe I shouldn't say this but the republicans are becoming (have been?) the party of death.

[rurallib]

- no restrictions on guns policies
- killing the ACA and effectively taking healthcare from millions (trying to anyway)
- Medicaid cut backs
- Medicare and SS will be targets next and that will be bad for the older folks
- threats to countries around the world for what seems no good reason - and one has nuclear
- horrible responses to natural disasters
- refusing to do anything to lessen climate change & instead push policies that will make it worse
- using divisive rhetoric and inflaming racial, sexist and homophobic hatred
- tied into hate groups
- doing what it can to roll back civil rights progress.
- the harassment and bullying by their followers

Mods, if this is over the line i understand.
But damn these people are pushing it to the brink - they scare me. They seem to have no limits to how far they will go

[defacto7]

1. It's a fact.

[Beakybird]

2. Oh there's more

- Allowing industries to pollute our air - premature death for millions
- Allowing industries to pollute our water - premature death for millions
- Allowing industries to contaminate our food - premature death for thousands
- Allowing companies to charge exorbitant $$ for drugs is a death sentence
- They want to allow nursing homes to have binding arbitration clauses so they can't be brought to court for abuse and neglect
- They just allowed CHIP insurance to lapse on 9 million children. How many will die?

[rurallib]

4. thanks for the adds

[Vogon_Glory]

3. Don't feel ashamed for thinking that. You're right

Don't feel ashamed for thinking that. Despite the presence of forced-birth block in the Republican Party (And by curious coincidence the Forced Birth block also opposes pre-natal health programs as well as child welfare programs that would protect mothers and infants), I have been led to the same conclusion--that if there is a pro-death party, it's today's Republican Party.

[TomSlick]

5. I'm probably one of the "mods."

I prefer to avoid hyperbolic language. But in this case, no I don't think you're over the line.

[jimlup]

6. I think we have to say it

it has been true for a long time actually and it will continue to be true. Republicans do NOT represent the interests of Humans. They represent the interests money.

Republicans are a virulent disease that has invaded our society. We need to kill it.

[Achilleaze]

7. Why do Republicans hate America?

Sick bastards. Sad.

[GReedDiamond]

8. To me the Republicans were the "Party of Death"...

...back when Nixon sabotaged the Paris peace talks and prolonged the Viet Nam War.

Now they've doubled/tripled/quadrupled down on it.

[Laffy Kat]

9. Why would you hesitate to say that?

It's true.

[WhiteTara]

10. Is. nt

[Willie Pep]

11. The GOP is not a pro-life party.

When you look at the big picture the Republicans are not a pro-life party. They support policies that make the country nastier and less conducive to life. Another thing to list would be suicides which are related to guns, economic hardship and a bullying culture that produces stress and anger. But mass shootings are also a byproduct of the same forces.

A friend of mine once said that the modern era of mass shootings started in the 1980s with workplace shootings (going postal) that were the product of Reagan-era economic policies making workplaces meaner and more stressful. It is possible that this helps to feed into a culture where people take out their problems on others in bursts of anger and violence.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

20. K & R Yes! Totally non-emotional beings leading the GOP.

I suspect that as Republicans dishonestly weasel their way upward into power, there's a steady drip, drip away of any emotions they may have been born with. By the time they make it into Congress they have the emotional qualities of a slab of cast iron.

Anything outside of the individual being is subject to laissez-faire rules.

[NotASurfer]

12. If #partyofdeath isnt a thing, it ought to be

Party of death...visceral. Cuts through BS rationalization right to the heart of the matter. I’m absolutely adding this to my vocabulary.

[SunSeeker]

14. +1

[BigmanPigman]

13. I am beginning to feel like it is slow genocide.

[SunSeeker]

15. It wasn't that slow last night.

[SunSeeker]

16. You are spot on. We need to stop mincing our words. nt

[nini]

17. My grandma drilled this into my head 55 years ago

She was right about everything she said about them.

As much as I miss her I am glad she is not here to the shitstorm we are going through right now.

[dchill]

18. They always have been the party of death.

Trump has just sabotaged their cloaking device.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

19. It's all about money and control with the GOP - always.

Personal enrichment, corporate profits, and a show of power drives them.

Summary:
Laissez-faire trickle-down greed with a healthy dose of arrogant Prosperity Gospel elitism.