-- Heart disease kills people, but Republicans fight every effort to reduce Americans' consumption of trans-fats and saturated fats.
-- Bacterial and viral infections kill people, but Republicans oppose any attempt to expand healthcare coverage for low-income people.
-- Hate kills people, but Republicans most recently voted against anti-Asian hate-crimes legislation.
-- Tearing children from their parents kills people -- both through stress and suicide -- but Republicans gleefully ripped thousands from their mothers' arms and trafficked so many of them that around 1,000 are still missing.
-- Stress from working full time but not being able to support your family kills people, but Republicans vigorously fight any effort to raise the minimum wage above $7.25 an hour.
-- Cutting medications in half to save money kills people, but Republicans oppose any effort to reduce obscene drug prices.
-- Deregulated trains kill people, but Republicans will only support more deregulation of the industry on top of all the rules Trump rolled back in 2018.
-- Covid kills people, but Republicans were so anxious to turn a pandemic into a political opportunity that they embraced policies that led to over 300,000 unnecessary deaths, most (two to one) among people who trusted the GOP.
-- Misogyny and domestic violence kills people, but Republicans have fought the Equal Rights Amendment for over 5 decades and 157 Republicans in the House voted against taking guns away from domestic abusers.
-- Losing your home during an economic crisis kills people, but as suicides spiked during the 2008 Bush Crash, Republican Steve Mnuchin happily and perhaps illegally threw over 36,000 families out of their homes (and he was just the tip of the iceberg).
-- Ignorance kills people, but Republicans want to ban books, fire teachers, and defund public schools.
-- Student debt kills people, but Republicans fight any effort to reduce the school loan burden of millions of struggling Americans.
-- Climate change kills people every single day, but Republicans continue to insist it's not a problem or doesn't even exist.
-- Losing power during harsh weather kills people, but Republicans block every effort to shift America from big, centralized, for-profit power systems to local, community-based green power.
-- Racism kills people, but Republicans have elevated it to the centerpiece of their so-called "anti-woke agenda."
-- Poverty kills children, but Republicans have blocked the Biden administration's effort to maintain the child tax credit.
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