Obamacare Shows How Americans Are Becoming Jerks

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18. You win the thread (beginner's luck?)

When people are hard pressed, they progressively become more fearful and conservative (selfish). This is hardly a new wrinkle in human behavior, but clueless Democrats never seem to take human nature into account.

Then layered on top of the steadily worsening economic situation for the 99%, (for which they are beginning to look at fault) the Democrats come along and make their usual clusterfuck out of health care "reform". People in the 99% don't see the promised benefits. They see it doesn't live up to the hype. Their premiums have just gone up and up since ACA passed, and they start to worry and resent that they are going to be soaked to provide benefits to people with even less (which is quite true, ACA soaks the middle class to provide benefits to the working poor, and will do this more and more as more and more employer plans fall under the "Cadillac tax" due to medical inflation. If ACA had been funded by a Wall St. tax, well it all might be different but you know Democrats and Wall St. - thick as thieves!

So now the very people who voted in 2008 to give Democrats a chance to turn the country around are turned off by the high cost, by the horrific complexity, by the sudden injection of the coercive power of the state into their most private decisions, by the general dysfunction typified by the healthcare.gov website, which they sense is just the beginning, and by the myriad broken promises used to sell this shit sandwich to the country. They become at last susceptible to the GENERAL MESSAGE of Republicans, that government has no business interfering in this important area of their lives because it can't do anything right, and ultimately it doesn't do things to benefit ordinary people like themselves.

Way to go Democrats! Your incompetence and craven corporate bootlicking has destroyed America's hope and the good will of citizens, each to the other. You have reaffirmed in their minds the Republican social model of a War of each against All. You have no one but yourselves to blame.