Letters: McCormick votes disappoint; Oh, the inhumanity
McCormick votes disappoint
Senator McCormick campaigned on the theme of honor and integrity. Disappointingly, he shows little of that by voting the Trump party line regardless of the issue. Most recently it was to approve the PBS rescission bill. Before that it was to support Medicaid cuts and a huge transfer of wealth to those who are already well off. He also voted to support the nomination of virtually every incompetent buffoon that Trump presents. These are not far-left issues but rather middle-of-the road concerns that even some Republicans opposed. No matter what the issue is McCormick blindly falls into line as a Trump sycophant. Senator McCormick seems to have forgotten that he only narrowly defeated Senator Casey in a purple state. While I’m sure that some voted for him due to their concerns over inflation and immigration, I doubt that many of his voters had such a far-right agenda in mind. McCormick needs to moderate his stance and represent politically moderate Pennsylvanians, not just the MAGA crowd.
Oh, the inhumanity
Think of the United States of America as that big, beautiful blimp, the Hindenburg airship in 1937, admired by everyone looking up to it everywhere it passed.
The whole world admired the innovation and accomplishment it had come to represent. A spark ignited the gases that kept the big, beautiful blimp aloft and it was destroyed along with more than half of the people aboard.
The big ugly destructive Republican budget bill is like the spark that stared the fire that destroyed the Hindenburg.
The structure is consumed and no longer supports the lives of the people dependent on it. The lifelines like health care and food assistance and Social Security connecting families and elders to a secure future fail and fall away. Millions of children go hungry and people with serious health issues die senselessly. Everyone’s lives are diminished.
The devastation is complete, and no one will ever build another blimp as big and beautiful or another United States of America as innovative and supportive and inclusive.
That’s what is happening to our United States of America now. The Trump administration is destroying our country and our place in the world. Everything that makes America great is on fire.
Horrifying, isn’t it?
Solutions in ‘historical moment’
Early this spring, a new gene therapy saved a tiny baby from a fatal genetic anomaly. And a garden, asleep through the winter, on botanical cue, sprouted tiny shoots and flowers, a world of wonder in a coalescence of life-altering genius and miraculous botanical wonders. Gifts of whatever gods you choose to embrace.
In this same historical moment, the intentional cruelties of a corrupt regime, marinate in rampant stupidity that has evolved to define a mean, diabolical politics, challenging the soul of our democracy.
MAGA GOP look into the eyes of starving children as billionaires pad their pockets. They scoff in the faces of hunger, death and preventable disease, funding and research going dark in their corrupt regime. They speak in contradiction. Small people, who beat their hairless chests, in homage to a seeming mad man behind the curtain — an adjudicated felon, a lifelong liar, a cheat.
He plays “president.” And they fear the manipulative ventriloquist’s dummy, demonstrating “executive orders,” swaying side to side in ceaseless motion, soulless eyes, displaying large, meaningless placards.
MAGA cowards in Congress and Cabinet sanction his actions, as do a purchased cadre of “Supremes.”
And so?
Start a fight.
Expose individual members of the MAGA GOP, for their votes and the consequences on local communities.
Disquiet and disrupt the obsequious GOP.
Campaign at their town halls.
And to the media: Pay no attention to the Orange Man.
He hates to be ignored.
But hey ... please?
Clean water is absolutely essential to life. And water scarcity is a growing problem globally. By 2050 half the world’s population may no longer have safe water supplies. But hey ... first we need to end peaceful protesting, with violence if necessary.
Our atmosphere, which we treat as vast and invulnerable, is actually shockingly thin and fragile. Without it life on Earth isn’t possible. This protective layer is clearly thinning out as a result of the burning of fossil fuels. But hey ... let’s not get derailed from the urgent task of defaming and harassing anyone who doesn’t look like “us,” think like “us” or behave like “us.”
The health of our oceans is in peril. Considering that oceans generate 50% our oxygen, produce much of our food, and play a gigantic role in regulating our climate, this is potentially catastrophic. But hey ... nothing should take precedence over finding ways to take away all those stupid regulations which do nothing but protect consumers.
Microplastics have been discovered in our food, our drinking water, and now our blood. We have no idea yet how threatening this is to our health or to all life, really, but hey ... the priority has got to be getting public lands opened up so we can “mine and drill, baby, mine and drill!”
By every standard that matters, humans are imperiling life everywhere on the globe. We like to refer to ourselves as “homo sapiens,” intelligent humans. But hey ... how intelligent can we be, really?