From The
Idiot Factor:
US President Donald Trump would be a funny
man, deeply amusing, if he wasn’t such a destructive political force. He is
truly despicable. One of the best examples of this is his policies on health
care. One of the first things he did when, he took office, was to strip
Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) and cost millions of people their health care.
He is still at it, determined to destroy
health care for millions of people. He is determined and has worked diligently
to destroy the one act to provide common people of medium and lower class
workers to health care. The US is about the only industrialised country in the world that
does not have any program to provide health care for its working poor.[1] For
the last 50 years various presidents and politicians have tried to pass laws
that would change that, but the various corporations that profit off of this
country’s sick people have managed to destroy such attempts.
It was almost two weeks ago that aTexas judge ruled Obamacare to be unconstitutional, a move
that could leave millions of Americans uninsured and without any health care.
If that ruling stands, it could be a disaster for millions of Americans and yet
Trump was crowing about it being a “great ruling for the country.”
“It was a big, big victory by a highly
respected judge, highly, highly respected in Texas Arlington Cemetery
Just a few days ago, Jay Bookman, writing for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution gave
a really accurate description of Trump:
“Whatever else it will say about him, history
will see Donald Trump as a marker in time that divides what came before him
from what will come after him. He is a ridiculous figure, especially as
president, but the fact that he was elected anyway demonstrates the bankruptcy
of that previous era and the repudiation of an approach to politics that had
grown stale and unresponsive…..
…… Through incompetence, ignorance and no small
degree of malevolence, Trump is hastening the destruction of that previous
world. Alliances, networks and understandings that had stood for decades are
falling apart, quickly, but the truth is that all that was fated by time to
crumble anyway. Wiser leadership would attempt to manage that decline while
building replacements, but for the moment that is not the leadership that we
have given ourselves.”
Bookman doesn’t spell out the direction he
thinks the Democrats should go, but he seems to be fairly accurate about Trump
and his contributions to politics. Trump is ridiculous. What is really amazing
is that anyone who does not have a lot of money would actually vote for him and
continue to support his presidency. A lot of people who will lose their health
care actually voted for him and many still support him. It almost seems to be
an act of self loathing to support this man and his destruction of the working
class. As Bookman points out, many people are seriously unhappy with the
direction of this country and already feel they are being attacked by the
mainstream political establishment. Trump represents working class people who
are jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Trump talks about fixing this county’s health care system and
yet the Republicans have done nothing but preventing any positive change for
health care. We can expect more of the same.
[1] For
an example for some of this see; “Estes
just wants insurance companies to profit off of the sick and dying.”
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