I could be called a tree-hugging hippie.
I’ve been this way for a long time.
The March 2000 film, Erin Brockovich, tells the story of how a small law firm took down Pacific Gas & Electric over their knowingly dumping toxic wastewater into people’s water supply and thereby causing a host of health problems including a variety of cancers.
And this story is not an isolated incident, either.
Again and again and again, I have seen the Republican Party, long before our current president took office, enact legislation that allows a select few to reap billions for their own profit at the expense of the American people, all in the name of ‘supporting businesses.’ I’ve seen it with global warming, and I see it in a more recently study linking diabetes to air pollution.
Because apparently, having a rule that says if you make a mess, you need to clean it up costs rich people too much money.
This is the hypocrisy of the Republican Party; it’s been their mantra for decades, long before Trump.
Because time and time again, I see Republican candidates talk the same mess about relaxing environmental regulations to make it easier for 1%ers to rake in obscene amounts of cash while the rest of us end up footing the bill for the mess they leave behind.
Because after decades of seeing our rights to clean air and water being eroded by those in power and doing nothing about it, liberals are finally waking up to the reality of what we’re living with, what we’ve been living with, to the poison that is the Republican party, that has been the Republican party since the 1990s.
This is not an ‘agree to disagree’ issue.