Why Republicans Don’t Recycle–Hint: Don’t Ask Me

I overheard a conversation the other day on recycling, in which one of the participants said, “Ha! I don’t recycle. I’m a Republican!”

When I was a little boy in the early 1960s, my parents, who were several generations deep in their conservative Republican heritage, made a big deal out of every-other Wednesday, aka “bottle-day,” when glass bottles were taken away in separate containers to be melted down and made into new ones. The ethos of the day was that doing good wasn’t a political statement; it was something that all sane and decent people subscribed to.

Just a few decades later, the idea of doing good and taking care of other people and our planet in general is now something that only woke communists could possibly be interested in.