(#4881) According to republicans, your hourly wage is worth about a gallon of gas

      So after working hard for an hour at the minimum wage price, you too can buy a gallon of gas. So the value of labor, as republicans see it, is nothing more than a pittance when viewed in the light of the cost of a gallon of gas. $7.25 is the federal minimum wage. We democrats have been trying hard to get the federal minimum wage up to at least $15 an hour but republicans keep filibustering any bill we try to pass in the senate to right this obvious wrong. How is a vast majority of our population who are paid the minimum wage supposed to keep themselves alive or their families? How I ask?
     This is insane that we cannot get rid of republicans out of our politics so that we can right the wrongs that republicans perpetuate in our society. I just don't get it. Are we as US Americans so ridiculously ignorant to our own plight that we are unable to distinguish who is trying to help us and who is trying to harm us? It is evident that we are because there is no other way to explain why we keep republicans in power. As the January 6th committee is showing us about the last republican administration being so devoid of principle and honor does that not sink in about the republican party that worked overtime to keep them in power? Is their no shame in the republican voter? Are they all psychos?
     It is difficult for me to understand the apologists for republicans and their narrative of being good for our society. They are the opposite! From insurrection to racism to misogyny, the republican glide path has been consistently chaotic. They have no pride in the melting pot concept even though all of them are products of the melting pot of cultures here in the states. The hatred they have for people who are not them is boiling over into their speech. Now even they are looking for hitler like qualities in their candidates in the upcoming election. I am disgusted with the republican party and how every one else is not disgusted as well is what has me flabbergasted!