I cannot remain silent while the GOP assaults virtually every essential aspect of our lives. Callous disregard for the majority of us is now rampant in the Republican Party. Virtually every essential aspect of our lives is under assault, even life itself.

GOP intransigence on gun control is symptomatic of their self-serving reckless agenda. In addition to undermining our bedrock democratic institutions, most of the Trump/GOP policies and legislation are and will cause untold hardship for most of us.

Contorted health care schemes by which millions lose insurance and thousands die; sabotaging the ACA by slashing subsidies; withholding CHIP health insurance from children; tax reform with drastic cuts to social and other vital programs, along with higher taxes for the middle class and the poor; denying climate change that is leading to worldwide upheaval; weakening consumer protection laws; rolling back essential EPA regulations; usurping iconic public lands for extractive industries; the ineffective response to the disaster in Puerto Rico; and on and on, ad nauseam.

These injustices are and will cause massive hardship, all to benefit the wealthy elite, the GOP paymasters, at our expense. The GOP is clearly the party of cruelty and suffering. We must change that in 2018.