The one about a parasite

America is torn sharply between the Republican view and the Democratic view. Both sides believe that the other is destructive. However, let's look at what is actually destructive about them.

Democratic governance, if we ever see it again, tries to limit the impact of excessive greed on the average citizen. It demands a lighter burden on the poor and lower middle class, a higher burden for the upper classes because they can shoulder the burden without diminishing their standard of living in the least. It demands that large corporations who benefit from the protection of the United States pay for that protection by paying taxes on their activities. Democratic governance tries to make sure that primary and secondary education are available to all in order to ensure the competitive edge America has traditionally enjoyed in the world. It refuses to consider the weak, handicapped, and elderly as useless appendages not worth the time and expense. It does not turn its back on children who happen to be born in poor families as unworthy of medical care simply because their parents are too poor to pay for it. Democratic governance uses the public money to invest in the growth, prosperity, and success of the nation collectively.

Republican governance tries to ensure a shield of separation for the wealthy that excuses them from paying taxes according to their ability. It makes sure that corporations pay little if nothing in taxes to the country that makes their activities possible. Republican governance tries to dismantle public education by undercutting the rights of teachers, introducing sectarian religion into the curriculum, planning to take apart the Department of Education, cutting education budgets, and propagating the lie that educated people are unproductive elitists. Republican governance sees no relationship between the prosperity and success of the United States and the skill of its population. It cuts money to train the handicapped. It takes away funding for the elderly and children. It fights to stop children from poor families receiving medical care. Republican governance uses the public money to prop up a tiny select class of wealthy patrons whose growth, prosperity, and success garner the nation nothing but more poverty, fewer job opportunities, and wider gaps between the social classes. The inevitable outcome of this short-sighted avarice is class warfare.

To look at the two sides honestly, it is obvious that one of them is destructive of society while one is not. One is a parasitical pest that uses the American public to gain obscene profits on the backs of the lower classes without any sense of obligation to help the nation that supports them. One needs to be swatted like mosquitoes, and I, for one, am willing to gladly join in the swatting.