Republican Shame

So let me see if I get this? The Republican Party, now so very unified, has passed legislation in the Senate to deprive millions of Americans of access to medical care due to poverty, limited income or pre-existing conditions by shutting down Obamacare. The same legislation would deprive millions of American women access to essential medical care by shutting down Planned Parenthood as punishment for the 3% of their services that go to abortion. All of this for ideological reasons.

At the same time, the Republican Party has asserted that there will be no consideration of gun law legislation in the wake of mass shootings of innocent people, most recently in San Bernardino. They blame mass shootings on the mentally ill, a disenfranchised and helpless population and on domestic Muslims. We never know which Muslims. There are certainly good Muslim citizens in this country, but how can we tell which ones? the Republican Party will make sure that suffering Muslim Syrian refugees cannot find sanctuary in this great country.

Clearly, the language of the Second Amendment is simple and clear enough that those touting the right to bear arms also know that the same right bears the limitation of regulation for "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State...". Clearly, it was never intended that everybody getting a gun can have one without responsibility and accountability. The resistance to gun law regulation has nothing to do with the Constitution. It is ideological.

Again and again, the Republican Party solution seems to be to marginalize vulnerable people in our society by doubt and fear. The very same tactics that Hitler used to attain power. Shame on them and everyone who chooses to support this kind of thinking.

And we wonder how ISIS can attract recruits to their ideological movement from among the marginalized Muslim populations around the world? Is there a difference in their political strategies?

By the way, all of the comments about the Republic Party above are in today's newspaper. I would find it shameful to support that political party in any way given just those three planks of today's political agenda.