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Not to mention the fact that their bill doesn't solve any of the problems (some of which they created themselves) that they claim to be concerned about with in regards to the ACA and would make them all worse, not better.
Kills me
First off, the Democratic plan is ALREADY law. It was signed into law 7 years ago. Second, Democrats have never refused to sit down with Republicans and work to address flaws with the law but that's not what Republicans are trying to do right now, so why would they join them in trying to repeal ACA? Thirdly, Republicans crafted this bill in secret with only 13 Republican Senators participating and tried to ram it through on a party line vote. Fourth, a lot of the problems w/ACA would be fixed if Republicans stopped sabotaging the law, which, of course, they're not interested in fixing it.
I don't know what the motivations of the Republicans are (re: Putin)
though I strongly suspect that it has a lot to do with admiring Putin's authoritarian regime and wishing that the US can be more like Russia (with them in control, of course), which might be more of a frightening possibility right now if somebody more competent and less buffoonish than Donald Trump got elected last November, which is bad enough in and of itself. Not saying that they aren't still trying to remake the US in Putin's image but, thanks to Trump's incompetence and the general resilience of American historical traditions and institutions, as well as a large and vibrant resistance to Trump and his (mis-)Administration, American democracy just might survive Trump and Putin's meddling in our elections.
Given how many Republican amendments were accepted into the ACA
It's hard for them to argue that Democrats didn't listen to them. As for them not voting on it, that was their choice, but it's not like Democrats should have to ask Republicans permission to make progress, especially when they insist on standing in the way of progress all the time and had no real argument to vote against the ACA (or anything else for that matter) other than they didn't want President Obama and Democrats to have a major legislative policy win.
I don't even understand on a rational and objective level
How anybody other than members of Aryan Nation and/or KKK or other racist hate groups could honestly say that they "suffered" under Barack Obama's Presidency and hearing people suggest it makes me uncontrollably roll my eyes.
I get so tired of "Why don't Dems do......?" posts/threads
1. If Democrats are not doing something, there may be a perfectly valid reason why they are not. Unlike us, they don't or can't (over-)react to every piece of news immediately- they are not omniscient beings and know what's happen every second of every day, let alone able to do something about "it" immediately. The wheels of justice turn slowly. In Congress, it's even slower, especially when the majority party goes "tribal" and refuses to be check and balance on other branches of our government.
2. Democrats may actually be doing *something* but since we're not seeing it live or it's "behind-the-scenes, we might not immediately know about it.
3. Democrats don't control Congress, so if the Republicans aren't doing anything about this, there's not too much that Democrats can do other than protest and try to call attention to things Trump/Republicans are doing. Many Democrats HAVE been outspoken about Donald Trump and the GOP's awful policy agenda.
4. If you feel that (fill in the blank) is worthy of the Democrats' time and attention, flood their offices and pressure them to do something about (fill in the blank).
5. If you feel that Democrats are not doing something that you think that they should be doing but not, support a primary candidate in the next election and/or run yourself against them.
Anytime some idiot talks about President Obama "not doing anything" about the Russian interference
(which of course is a lie), after we get done pointing out how that is a bald-faced lie, we also need to also fire back with "Why didn't Mitch McConnell do anything?!" If he, Ryan, et. al weren't in on it, he sure as hell didn't seem to care one wit about it and certainly didn't care about the legitimacy of Trump's election.
It would be doing even better
if Republicans weren't intentionally sabotaging it and/or needlessly creating more uncertainty in the market place. And it just came out the other day that it was GREED not ACA that motivated Aetna to pull out of the ACA marketplace in some areas, so there's that as well. What's even worse is that the Republican "alternative" will fix NOTHING. It basically just kills ACA all the same- and makes a lot of people suffer needlessly.
Oh FFS
When did THIS come up for grabs????!!! I mean, I remember Rick Santorum kinda sorta bringing this up once back in 2011-2012, but that certainly wasn't "mainstream" Republican thought (until now, I guess).
But hey, if they want to forego College, I guess that that just creates more space for progressive, free-thinking people to attend College and improve themselves and go on to lead the country while they are working themselves to death at the local Wal-Mart.
Ok but.......
I can understand that some people might feel disappointed about the lack of progress when Democrats are in office (which is largely driven by Republican obstructionism after they take away Congress from the Democrats after the first midterm or two) but what is the fundamental reason(s) driving vast numbers of would-be Democratic voters into the arms of Republicans- who will make every single thing they care about worse- every election? Or simply not bothering to vote at all knowing (I think?) that it means that it will cost Democrats more elections and things will just get worse on all fronts? It simply baffles me why- if they really want all of the things you're talking about here to be better- they simply either give up and go home without voting or they get easily conned into voting for a moron like Trump whom rubberstamps the far-right Republican agenda that gets crazier every year instead of continuously vote for a slightly imperfect Democrat whom actually agrees with them? Sometimes I seriously wonder if a lot Americans or just masochistic and just can't handle the idea of having any good things in life and feel like we have to be in perpetual conflict and misery even when we all deserve and could theoretically choose to have a happier and more fulfilling existence? I guess that we never got over our historical Puritanical nature? Maybe that is the function that the GOP has decided to serve?
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