The Republican Party must change

As someone who now characterizes himself as a new “liberal/progressive” Republican, I believe that the national Republican Party must change in fundamental ways if it is to be at all competitive with the national Democratic Party after the years of 204244 when over 50 percent of the U.S. will be “nonwhite.”

The party needs to appeal more to groups that it has little appeal to now, and it needs to care more about these groups, especially at the national level.

I will fight for the national Republican Party to do more to help the lower and middle classes, the poor, the nearpoor, and senior citizens.

I will fight for the national Republican Party to not be in favor of making cuts to federal government social programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, College Student Loans, and Unemployment Insurance Benefits.

I will fight for the national Republican Party not to have so many Republican Party members of Congress who want to abolish these programs and who can accurately be described as advocating for a coldhearted “SurvivaloftheFittest” Social Darwinism. Recent research indicates that most Americans who are Republicans are much less conservative on these issues than are the Republican members of Congress.

I will fight for the national Republican Party to stand strongly against white nationalism and sexism.

I will fight for the national Republican Party to stand strongly in favor of total equality for women including being for equal pay for equal work for women and being in favor of heavilyfining people who commit sexual harassment and all other forms of sexual abuse and sexual assault as well as imprisoning these evil sexual predators.

Lastly, I will fight for the passage of a federal government national health insurance plan/program that is the same one that Ontario, Canada has , but not “MedicareForAll.”

I look forward to trying to make the national Republican Party more humane, compasssionate, and caring.

Stewart B. Epstein, Rochester, NY