We are Expendable

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Congratulations to Republican voters who have stuck with their party through thick and thin, never wavering in their support to the cause. Why, you ask? Because all of you Republican voters have become officially expendable, as in your leaders, don’t care if you live or die.

How can I say such a horrible thing? Well, first of all, I am not the person saying it; your leaders are saying it. Not in smoke-filled rooms, or with quiet deals over drinks and cigars, or in some high-tech villain lair with a mad-man plotting to take over the world like we have seen in movies hundreds of times. But in the open, on nationally broadcast media, with the perpetrators not being the least subtle, hesitant, or remorseful when they say directly. That they want you to die, so they don’t have to have any hardship.

Multiple times in the last few days Prominent Republican political figures, or vocal Republican/Right Wing media figures have said in public that the pandemic is nothing and people should just get over it and go back to their normal lives.

Let’s translate that into reality for people who have a problem speaking in alternative-fact-English. The pandemic is nothing means that it is not impacting the speaker right now, but might hurt their wealth or power soon. People should get over it means that all of you unimportant people should go back to generating wealth for them, do…