One Degree wrote:This thread riled me up. For those of you who wonder who Trump supporters are, maybe it is people like me. I have sat in my apartment thinking I was having a heart attack, but refused to call 911. Why? Because if it is not a heart attack then I just bankrupted myself for no reason. Meanwhile, day after day, I see neighbors call 911 because their toe hurts, because they have never worked and it is all free. I then can turn on the Liberal media and hear how I am oppressing poor minorities, because I am a white racist.
Those who wish to shout Trump supporters down, simply don't understand who you are dealing with. We have had enough hypocrisy from people who don't have a clue as to who we really are and what are concerns are.
I realized I am off topic, but I feel better even if this post is deleted.
One Degree, at various times in my life I have been in economic distress. I have always been acutely aware of what I can and cannot afford in the way of medical services.
But let's admit that some people abuse medical services. Does this make it right and correct that you should do without? I don't think so. Yet most people I know on the right cannot make the jump to the obvious conclusion: free basic medical care for every citizen helps the great mass of people who are just getting by, far more than either the very poor or the very rich.
It's almost as if their fear of the malingerer trumps their protective instincts for themselves and their families. I give some reluctant credit to a few people on the alt-right who now advocate medicare-for-all; they at least recognize that privation of the average citizen is not the solution.
I can quite confidently assert that the so-called "postmodernist left" is a chimera. It is not left in any
meaningful sense. It has internalized free market idolatry no less than their conservative counterparts. The only thing the fake-left brings to the table is a radical tribalist world-view. They deem it sufficiently just if a lesbian is in the board-room or a black is the CEO, irrespective of the fate of the actual workers. No one is surprised that Madeleine Albright says there is a special hell for women who don't support female candidates (read HRC) - it's all about their personal ambition.
Please understand that the right is not offering any solutions. For instance, they want to replace a fatally-flawed ACA with what amounts to basically nothing. Conveniently, nothing is what they had in mind in the first place. If Trump had actually been a real populist (a la Huey Long) I would have voted for him over HRC (I didn't vote for either). I wouldn't even begrudge him his breath-taking corruption, if he would actually help working people. He can kiss Putin's ass all he likes, I don't give a damn. What I hate is that he is doing nothing (and will continue to do nothing) for the people he promised to help.
(BTW, if you walk into a ER, you will be given the minimum treatment to stabilize you and unceremoniously ejected; you will be given a referral to a health care provider who will demand cash or insurance upfront. This happens as a matter of course. People are dying unnecessarily every day in this county from the lack of basic healthcare, and one of them may end up being you or me.)
Why is it, I wonder, that so many on the right are unable to recognize the betrayal of Trump? Certainly, the left (at least
my left) has no illusions about Obama or HRC. Sabb's obsession with postmodernism is an example of pure right-wing sentimentalism. Don't expect him to give up his Dutch healthcare for the American version of social Darwinism.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. -Antonio Gramsci