Sure, voting Republican ensures more lip service paid to family "values." But peal the layers of rhetoric away from the self-proclaimed moral majority and you get those creepy, ugly little truths, like this unsurprising piece on the toothless EPA and its culture of illegal and immorral indifference to the poisoning of its fellow red staters, among others.
What's disheartening and pathetic at the same time is how so many Americans feel threatened at the mention of hot button issues like gay marriage and abortion, things that generally never actually affect them in any direct way. But in matters of wide spread poisoniong where people actually are directly affected for the worse, it's hard to get people to care or pay attention.
Voting Republican in spite of your health is inherently foolish. But what's even more criminal is the fact that the EPA is now operated as a smokescreen to protect polluters. The government has taken an agency whose very definition is to protect the environment and transformed that arm of government into the polar opposite of its stated purpose.
Why even have an EPA if its only function is to reinforce the illusion of corporate responsibility?
Isn't the government supposed to work for the people? Why pay taxes if we are just subsidizing corporate welfare and our own slow deaths? Why don't liberals make the environment our own nasty version of the gay marriage argument? This is actually threatening the stability of our "great civilization."
I couldn't dream up a more typical generalization of Republican environmental policy run wild. This is the Bush party at its worst. And it isn't even a surprise to those of us who pay attention to trivial social matters like our collective poisoning at the hands of a government who would rather lie to us than save
us.
But don't take it from me or the article in question. We're just part of the "great liberal media conspiracy." After all, if it makes conservatives look bad, it can't be true.
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