GOP's War on American People: Death Panels Edition

[e_moon60]

The GOP is determined to destroy the ACA, Medicare, Medicaid, and Planned Parenthood, as part of dismantling the "social safety net" that replaced the robber-baron attitudes of the 19th and early 20th century.   It does not matter to the GOP Congressional members that the same social safety net benefitted their families and themselves since the

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[muaddim]

"plannted"- maybe planned ?

[e_moon60]

Yup. No spell-check here, alas.

[bunny_m]

Some people would rather be $10 poor but $20 ahead of the next person, rather than $200 richer and only $10 richer than the next person.

The attitude of the GOP, and the Tories in he UK, the LNP in Australia, and pretty much all 'conservative' parties everywhere are fundamentally "*I'm* all Jack, to hell with you."

There always have been, and always will be scum like them, but the tragedy of our times is that those are the people with power right now.

All we can do is stand up and be counted every time they try to define reality in their own terms and refuse to agree with them that this awesome and stylish new outfit looks amazing on the Emperor.

[thewayne]

I describe the unofficial motto of the RNC as "I've got mine, screw you!" Replace 'screw' with whatever expletive that you desire.

[sheff_dogs]

This is exactly it, it doesn't matter that *everyone* would be more prosperous with better social and health care policies and maybe even things like Universal Basic Income, they're alright and anyone who isn't can suffer until their premature death.

[thewayne]

My mom voted for Trump because Hillary didn't kick Bill out of the house when he started fooling around. My dad voted for him because he didn't trust a woman who spent her life in public service versus a man who spent his life making money for himself and putting his name on any building that he could

[e_moon60]

I'm so sorry. You're in a terrible fix, along with many other people.

[sheff_dogs]

I am sorry, chronic illnesses are quite bad enough to live with without the extra worry of how you are going to pay for your health care. Hope the antibiotics help stave off the pneumonia.

[e_moon60]

Yes, I'm well aware of that. And the US's position among nations, in terms of maternal mortality has slipped a lot. Last time I looked, Cuba had better stats on that then the US. Certainly all the other "first world" nations have better. But here the men in power and their smug wives would rather slut-shame women for "bad choices" than fix the underlying problems.

[musicman]

I think you have a very cogent and all too sane analysis of the GOP modus operandi. Population reduction, without birth control.

[ext_729154]

It's always interesting to me how much of what the Republicans say is projection. Largely it seems to reflect things that they themselves do, or with they could do.