How is the GOP's coronavirus recklessness compatible with being pro-life?

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/06/how-is-gops-coronavirus-recklessness-compatible-with-being-pro-life/

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https://archive.ph/wJIQN


Under the intellectual and moral leadership of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Republicans in the House have done their best to set a standard of deadly misinformation, poisonous bigotry and mental vacuity. But Republicans in the Senate — possessing greater intellectual kilowattage and fewer excuses for cowardice — have recently taken center stage in the GOP festival of small-mindedness.

During last week’s budget negotiations, and as America prepared for the full-scale arrival of the omicron coronavirus variant, every present Senate Republican voted to “defund” the federal vaccine mandate on businesses, the military and the federal workforce. This indicated a political party now so intimidated by its liberty caucus that senators such as Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine felt compelled to bend the knee. It was a collective declaration of utter madness.

This is the strangest political cause of my lifetime. In the midst of a public health emergency that has taken more than 1 of every 500 American lives and which has reduced average life expectancy by 1.67 years (reversing about 14 years of life expectancy gains), Republican officials are actively discouraging citizens from taking routine medical precautions for their own welfare. This is not just a disagreement about policy. It is a political movement organized around increasing the risk of death to your neighbors, particularly your ill and elderly ones. And while it is certainly selfish, is not ultimately self-interested. Fatalities have increased especially in Republican-leaning portions of the country. A death cult has adopted a death wish.

For the “don’t tread on me” crowd, this is part of a consistent ethic of death. By some recent measures, almost a third of Republicans say political violence may be necessary to “save” the country. Most of these advocates have spent many years being desensitized to bloodshed; they have been told that a portion of their fellow citizens are the embodiment of evil and bent on their destruction. A philosophy of freedom has been transformed into a means of dehumanization.

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[tulipsandroses]

1. Nothing they do is about pro life

As one guest on MSNBC pointed out they are the party of against everything. They don’t stand for anything.
OK, you are against abortion
So are you for more access to healthcare and expanding Medicaid? NO
So are you for paid family leave? No
So are you for affordable childcare ? NO
So are you for a $15 minimum wage?NO
So are you for policies for clean air and water?
You can’t be pro life and against the very things that sustain life

[keithbvadu2]

2. GQP::: You cannot control us. We can control you.

It's a control issue.

GQP::: You cannot control us. We can control you.

[samsingh]

3. the gop is pro-death, pro-covid, pro-Russian

[iemanja]

4. This is a party that opposes any funding for children after birth

And salivates over the death penalty. They never have been pro-life. What they are is anti-women and pro-death.

[Nevilledog]

6. ...

[onecaliberal]

5. The same way they say their body, their choice about mask wearing.

But your body and your pregnancy is their business and you will do what they say.

[Progressive Jones]

7. It's not. They're all squirrels in the head. nt