Editor,
Publicly, have you noticed how so many Republican power-mongers pick mainly on weak people, people who are already oppressed, people who are defenseless? Like dirt-poor undocumented migrants, artistic gay men, women in crisis making the agonizing decision of having a late-term abortion or possibly dying, and entire third-world nations that they bomb on the slightest pretext because the people there are too poor to fight back.
Yes, these Republicans are like the political version of the classroom bully. They can’t pick on someone of equal or greater strength, or there will be response in kind, which is why the bully is at heart a coward. A current example is their childish squirming at other bullies in the same classroom, in the form of their candidate debates for President.
So outwardly they rail against the down-and-out who simply don’t have the money to hire a lawyer, slapping the remotest protests with Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation suits. But privately they prey on the vulnerable, and the way these Republicans do it is by quietly hiring these same folk in their multifarious big business, and keeping them suppressed with an attitude like they are doing them a favor by doing so much as hiring them. So such folk in their desperation end up not asking for a whole lot when it comes to wages and working conditions.
The most egregious of this corporate-minded cabal are the likes of Republican doctor-politicos. How come even they are picking on the poor and the sick and dying by demanding repeal of the least that has been done for these, which is the Affordable Care Act?
Sincerely,
Arun Anand Ahuja
UNM student
