EVIL

Hartmann Report -  “Evil” is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “a force that causes bad things to happen.”

In a democracy—derived from the Greek root demos, meaning “the people”—the core principle is governance that serves the collective well-being of its citizens. When decisions or actions prioritize the interests of a small, privileged group or industry over the needs of the majority, they undermine this principle...

Today’s Republican Party is now fully in the service of:

 — The fossil fuel industry, which is threatening all life on Earth and just this week helped light Los Angeles on fire.
— The for-profit health insurance industry, which is (according to The Lancet) responsible for over 65,000 Americans dying unnecessarily every year.
— A group of rightwing billionaires who appear committed to replacing American democracy with oligarchy, which, as noted before, eventually morphs into tyranny.
— The gun industry, responsible for terrorizing and psychologically scarring our nation’s schoolchildren with active shooter drills, not to mention the highest gun homicide rate in the developed world.
— For-profit movements to end/privatize public school and keep college unaffordable.
— An investment industry financializing housing, which has caused a crisis of affordability and widespread homelessness.
— The predators in the banking industry who crashed our economy on George W. Bush’s watch and then walked away with hundreds of billions in taxpayer money.

The list, of course, goes on (including the GOP’s loyalty to the military/industrial complex and Putin), but the point is that all of these portend such dramatically terrible consequences for average Americans that they could realistically be termed “evil.”