I second J.L. Scott’s motion to dismantle the Republican Party. Recent history has shown how the current Republican Party has embraced Trumpism, rejecting science and reality. They’ve embraced racism and misogyny, while ignoring global warming and environmental laws. In essence, the GOP needs to go, not because it’s changed but because it’s being seen for what it is.
Its party platform is:
• Lower taxes — increases separation between haves and have-nots.
• Deregulation — increases wealth in hands of few at expense of global health.
• Labor union restrictions — reduces the strength of the working poor.
• Social conservatism — increases racism and inequity of pay, opposes same sex marriage and constitutional rights to abortion.
• Immigration restrictions — increases isolationism, locally and globally.
• Gun rights — increases violence in streets and deaths annually.
• Health care — opposes any government support, only employer-based, enabling companies to increase their control over employees.
• Increase executive power — proponent of the “unitary executive theory.”
• Climate change denial — in opposition to scientific consensus.
Yes, I support the end of the Republican Party, not because of any changes in its platform but because of its current transparency.
Robert Hoff, Taylorsville
