How do we love thee?

Let us count the ways.

We love thee to the depth and breadth and height our souls can reach, when:

We oppose reforms that a majority of Americans want because they would make life in the United States better and more in line with “We the People” like raising the minimum wage, ensuring paid family leave, and instituting student debt relief.

We continually condemn the citizens of the United States who live in major cities when we need a scapegoat and claim only we can make things right against the druggies, criminals, and lazy people who somehow make enough money to pay big city rents, yet, while appealing to rural citizens to join me in this hatred of cities, we have tried to block Medicaid expansion that would benefit rural communities and cut its funding, and to slash funding for rural infrastructure and development. We continually attempt to cut social programs, like food stamps that rural Americans depend on. 

As far as the land upon which the citizens live, Trump undid more than a hundred environmental regulations and opened about two million acres of culturally significant federal land to oil drilling, and we were there supporting him.

We GOP are attacking freedom of speech with book bans and laws restricting freedom of assembly by establishing stricter laws about protests. and we are rejecting the separation of church and state.

We have been denying election results, the votes cast by fellow citizens because we believe the voters did not vote correctly because they chose the other, non-GOP, candidates in federal, state and local elections, and unseating elected representatives because they have a different take on issues. We are making voting very difficult in many states to control who gets elected in the first place..

We have spent time removing the rights of minorities, women, the Gay Community, by passing laws and acting like the scientists we are not, basing the needs of U.S. citizens on our chosen religious beliefs.

We love children while protecting a fetus but take no real action to protect a living, breathing child in school and citizens in general in what have been until now safe places as we oppose any reasonable gun laws, claiming the Second Amendment is the crux of the constitution and the only one so sacred it can be twisted and edited for our convenience.

We boast of our support of the troops even as many of our legislative actions have reduced the finances of many of the troops and their families while defending a man who endangered the very troops we support by taking and potentially showing people classified material taken from the White House and, as was evident on the audio recording, showing people what could endanger troops if the enemy were to see the plans lying around in bathrooms and ballrooms.

That’s how much we love you.

We are protecting you from what you should really have.

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