Why wreck aid programs providing food for hungry people, preventing spread of deadly illnesses?
Why gut air-traffic control programs and their staff?
Why attack universities, rip funds from them?
Why strip weather-monitoring programs of much-needed personnel?
Why ridicule vaccines against serious infectious diseases and make vaccines inaccessible?
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Why remove photos of Black, Hispanic, female, LGBTQ military members from military archives?
Why round up immigrants whose labor is much-needed, putting agriculture and food production at great risk?
Why demolish a well-functioning economy, risking recession and even depression?
Why target long-established and essential programs that support humane lives for many citizens including Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security?
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None of this makes any sense at all to many of us, and we keep asking why.
The answer is simple.
We're being taught, whether we want to be taught or not, to understand what matters in the world these men seek to bring into being.
What counts for them is money and power. Period.
Republicans, a solid majority of them the loudest, outest Christians around, intend to teach us this lesson, to ram it down our throats.
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They laugh at the notion that values, family, the earth, art, literature, beauty, children, goodness, decency, schools, libraries, democracy count.
How old-fashioned, they tell us.
Haven't you gotten it yet, they ask — that money and power alone count?
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