(#5545) The republican calculus is that death of the innocent is irrelevant to them

      I have come to terms with my assessment that the people who are devout republicans do not care for the safety and welfare of those who are vulnerable to their decisions. The examples within the scope of my lifetime are numerous beginning with the republican sabotage of the peace treaty in 1968 between the US and Vietnam to the present denial of aid by republicans to the Ukrainian effort to defend themselves and democracy from the tyrant putin. If a policy is about lifting people out of desperation, poverty, and hunger then the republican party is about not helping and instead making it harder to actuate  solutions.
     The most recent example of withholding life saving aid to Ukraine in it's struggle to survive the onslaught of the murderous putin, is most excruciating. Many brave Ukrainians are dying today because the aid that was promised them months ago has been held up in the republican controlled House of Representatives because the de facto leader of the republican party, the disgraced trump, doesn't want the aid to go to Ukraine. The reasoning is that he, trump, owes putin favors and one of them is allowing putin to take Ukraine. The disgust I feel about the disgraced trump is beyond normal. Yet he has a hold over those in the House of Representatives that has yet to be broken. I cannot see a near future resolution of releasing the aid when stalling is the norm from the House by republicans.
     So while the defenders of democracy are dying for the inaction of republicans the rest of us are left with not much to do to help the innocent that will pay the ultimate price for the callousness of republican politicians. It has been my wish since I was a new voting young man that no more votes would go to the republican party. They have served notice the length of my lifetime that they are not about helping all in our democracy. Instead they are about ruling with an iron fist toward those who are not able to make themselves independently wealthy. Regardless of by hook or crook. The only real tangible thing republicans want to protect is power and wealth.