Repealing Obamacare affects everyone

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13. So long as minorities and other "undeserving" get hit hardest,

poor and working class whites will be perfectly willing - or even happy- to accept taking a hit themselves.

Very interesting article in the Post about this last week.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-the-white-working-class-votes-against-itself/2016/12/22/3aa65c04-c88b-11e6-8bee-54e800ef2a63_story.html?utm_term=.be4ff3373a88

Most people will accept almost any level of corruption from their social superiors - even unto trillions of dollars, so long as they believe that their social inferiors are (preferably proportionately perhaps) worse off. It is far easier to accept inequality from the more powerful, than it is to accept equality from the more powerless.

I know a number of union members who are more upset about their fellow union members trying to game the system than they are about the executives raping the system for billions. Somehow many of these people have been taught to feel that even taking their well earned pension is a form of parasitical behaviour of which they should be ashamed.