Editor,
Reasons to distrust most Republicans:
1. They do not want new taxes on corporations or billionaires.
2. They fail to realize more than 45 million Americans live below the poverty level.
3. They have pursued anti-women policies for decades.
4. They opposed increasing the minimum wage for decades.
5. Their beliefs contributed to more than 500,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs on Earth.
6. Their excess defense spending dramatically increased the national debt.
7. They want the wealthy to have nontaxed foreign bank accounts.
8. Their economic policies contribute to crime, despair and age-based tensions.
9. They tended to oppose passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.
10. They tried to stop more than a million people from voting in 2012.
11. They tend to be soft on cancer-linked cigarette companies.
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12. They tend to oppose improvements in education and environmental programs.
13. They regularly cut the budgets of the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Parks Service.
14. They tend to oppose legislation promoting clean air and water in the United States.
15. They tend to ignore global deforestation and global warming.
16. They ignore a third of the humans on Earth with inadequate food and/or water.
17. They tend to favor people owning lethal automatic weapons.
18. They tend to support larger pay increases for members of Congress.
19. They opposed a modest national health care system for decades.
20. They approved of White House decisions based on astrology in the ‘80s.
21. They presided over a pathetic response to Hurricane Katrina.
22. They tried to weaken Social Security for many decades.
23. They tend to violate the spirit of their oath of office to preserve, protect and defend the great majority of Americans.
Lynn Kenney
Daily Lobo reader
