Can you imagine that one of our two major political parties has no platform, no legislative agenda, no guiding principles beyond “Democrats are bad,” to improve the lives of Americans ahead of next year’s election?
The Republicans have no proposed legislation to help us survive human-caused climate change. No sense of urgency about combatting the many forms of covid that have already killed more than 800,000 Americans, mostly the unvaccinated. No plans to more strictly regulate the epidemic of gun violence sweeping the country on a daily basis. No leadership in quickly transitioning to renewable energy.
Instead, the Republicans are aggressively redrawing political districts in ways that make no ethical sense, but improve their chances to remain in power, even as a shrinking minority of Americans support them.
The U.S. now ranks the worst we have ranked among nations since World War II in political freedom, obesity, gun violence, public education, upward mobility, infrastructure, health care and, sadly, much more.
The Republican Party has no plan.
Meanwhile, Americans are enjoying a remarkably rapid economic recovery, record-low unemployment and rising household wealth. We can thank President Biden’s economic plan for that!
Patty Satalia
State College