Who is on the wrong side of virtrually every issue?

NPR reported people living in counties that voted for then-President Trump in the 2020 election were three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than people who lived in counties that voted for President Biden.

XIX. Student Debt”: As you read this section, remember that the U.S. government is Monetarily Sovereign, meaning it never can run short of dollars. Even if the federal government collected $0 taxes, it could afford to spend forever.

Thus, there never is a reason to lend dollars. The federal government has no need for returned dollars.

In September 2011, the Occupy Wall Street movement began. The protest against income inequality, the wealthy, and their financial institutions, led by activists “representing 99 percent of Americans,” soon led to the Occupy Student Debt Campaign, which directed its ire at the country’s skyrocketing tuition costs and debt-fueled higher education system.

When student debt surpassed $1 trillion in April 2012, the Debt Collective, a debtor union, called for abolishing all student debt and implementing free college.

Calls to abolish all student debt resurfaced amid myriad legal challenges representing victims of predatory for-profit colleges, catching the attention and support of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Packaging people with debt that schools knew or should have known would be unrepayable began to look predatory.

Only about half of borrowers were in repayment in 2019. A quarter — or more than 10 million people — were in delinquency or default, and the rest had applied for temporary relief for struggling borrowers, including deferments or forbearances.

The right-wing side of the Supreme Court ruled against President Joe Biden’s plan that would have forgiven up to $20,000 worth of student loan debt per borrower in a 6-3 decision1.

The majority opinion was delivered by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, who voted against the student loan forgiveness plan. Conservative Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett voted with Roberts.

All earlier had pledged their reverence for precedent.

XX. Obamacare: The common name for the Affordable Care  Act, is intended to make healthcare insurance more affordable for everyone by lowering costs for those who can’t afford them. The plan mandated that insurance companies include ten necessary benefits and paid the states to expand Medicaid coverage.

Twelve states rejected the plan; all GOP-dominated: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Their citizen continued to suffer from a lack of health care insurance. Before the ACA, insurance companies could exclude people with pre-existing conditions.

The GOP made several attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare.

The first attempt was in 2017 when Republicans tried to repeal and replace parts of Obamacare by spring. The House released an Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill called the American Health Care Act in March 20171. However, intraparty opposition quickly mounted, with some conservatives calling it “Obamacare 2.0.”

After winning control of the presidency, Senate, and House in the 2016 elections, Republicans attempted multiple times to repeal ACA but were unsuccessful.

XXI: Affirmative action is a policy or a set of procedures that aims to improve the educational or employment opportunities of certain demographic groups historically discriminated against or underrepresented in society.

It gives limited preference to qualified groups based on criteria such as race, gender, ethnic origin, disability, and age.

A 2013 Harvard study found that after affirmative action ended in critical states, “sharp declines” in the workplace followed for Asian women, Black women, and Hispanic men.

When the University of California system eliminated affirmative action in 1995, the number of Black and Latino students accepted by Berkeley and UCLA was cut by nearly half by 1998, the first year affected by the ban. 

There is theory, and there is reality. The theory is that all people should be treated equally. The reality is that certain groups never have been treated equally, and this unequal treatment of young children impacts them throughout their lives.

Affirmative action is a later attempt to undo the effects of early unfair treatment.

The Supreme Court decided 6-3 and 6-2 that race-conscious admission policies of the University of North Carolina and Harvard College violate the Constitution, effectively ending affirmative action in higher education through a decision that will reverberate across campuses nationwide.

The rulings fell along ideological lines. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion for both cases, and Justice Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh wrote concurring opinions. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissenting opinion. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has ties to Harvard and recused herself in that case but wrote a dissent in the North Carolina case. 

The ruling is the latest from the Supreme Court’s conservative majority that has upended decades of precedent, including overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022. 

SUMMARY

I believe the Republican Party, in concert with its Supreme Court political hacks, has worked on the wrong side of every important issue facing America.

I believe that the GOP is a party of bigots, voting against those who are not born white-supremacist, Christian, Americans and who are not wealthy.

As befits such a party, it has appointed to the Supreme Court a cadre of political hacks who vote a false, lockstep, “originalism” (but only when it supports the conservative, white-supremacist view) and ignores the reality of the pain their vote will cause.

Despite billing itself as “the party of law and order” and the party of religion, the GOP, in my opinion, is overstocked with lawbreakers from its top to its bottom.

As the “party of religion,” the GOP talks the talk but does not walk the walk. What religion is so callous as to deny support for the poor and besieged minorities while bending the knee to the rich?

The religion supported by the GOP is the one with Donald Trump as its God, a belief that omits the denies the rights of all other religions, agnostics, or atheists.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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