It's Time

You can feel them around you, can’t you? The ghosts of the 400,000 Americans who died unnecessarily because Republicans mismanaged the pandemic. You didn’t know them, so why do you feel their presence now?

You used to benefit from them. If they were still alive, they’d generate $36 billion a year in income. They’d buy things, and some of that money would circulate into your pocket.

You also feel the 40,000 Americans killed by guns every year. And the tens of thousands who die from cuts to healthcare and services to the poor. And the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who would have been working and spending and paying taxes but now aren’t here to do that.

You feel the promised jobs that never materialize after Republicans cut taxes on the wealthy. You feel the growing economy that flat-lines when Republicans take over.

The average person today would be making $15,000 to $20,000 more a year if not for what Republicans have done over the last 30 years.

The benefits you’re not getting are invisible, but you still feel them like ghosts. You know life used to get better in the past but isn’t getting better today. Switching back and forth between parties isn’t working. Something big has to be done, and it’s making you uneasy.

Republicans realize this, too. In their hearts, they’ve known for a long time they failed. Over the last 30 years they tried out all of their ideas many times. Every time it led to disaster. It’s becoming more and more obvious, and Republicans are freaking out.

They cultivate hysteria to keep from admitting their own failures. Illegal immigrants! Woke! Deep state! Climate hoax! Vaccine hoax! Voter fraud! And on and on, one after the other. Republicans are genuinely scared—they’re scared to face the truth about themselves. They’re desperate to keep you from seeing it, too. Republicans are happy to let you think they’re assholes so long as you don’t see that they’re confused and incompetent.

The ghosts of your absent prosperity won’t leave you alone until you punish those responsible. They want you to vote against the Republican Party so there’s no possibility of it returning to power. You sense how restless they’re becoming. They’ve been waiting for years. It’s time you give them justice.