Heartbreaking
D. S. Mitchell
Calamity politics woke up early this morning to more health care debate on the the cable news channels. I have been making my calls to Senators and voicing my disgust for the emerging disaster identified by many as, “TrumpCare”.
I have written several posts recently about the health care subject and again this morning Calamity Politics is urging political action by everyone. If you’re reading this post don’t forget to write, call, protest, run for office, anything to further the Resistance.
One of the things that never gets people excited is organizing. But, grassroots organizing is essential. Knock on doors, talk to people, ask them what they are looking for in a candidate, and find a candidate that matches what that community is talking about. Whatever you do, don’t lose faith. If you take a hammer and you hit it against a concrete wall, over and over again, that wall will breach. We are that hammer.
The secret writing of the Republican health care bill was enough to convince many people of its dubious underpinnings. The opposition to the pending legislation by hospitals, nurses and doctors, American Cancer Society, Diabetes Foundation, and reportedly 76% of the U.S. population is unprecedented. Those factors alone should be enough for the Republicans to sense the way the wind is blowing, but they cannot get past the “Repeal ObamaCare” thinking. If the Republicans are allowed to pass the TrumpCare bill many American citizens will suffer, maybe you, maybe your mother, or an uncle, a friend from work. Someone you know will be negatively effected if this bill passes.
Paul Ryan (R. WI) said he had dreamed of this bill, this moment, “since he used to talk policy at kegger parties, in college.” Are you fucking kidding me? Someone who is still holding on to dumb ass, drunk ‘college kid’ ideas is drawing up national health care policy that potentially effects everyone in America either directly, or indirectly, makes me furious.
These folks are so removed from everyday life that they don’t even realize what they sound like. The other day Senator Lindsey Graham (R. S.C.) made the comment, “If we don’t pass a bill, we”ll just wait until ObamaCare collapses. Maybe then we can get something passed.”
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senator Graham’s comments are both heartlessness and offensive. Somebody has cancer, guess we’ll watch his treatment interrupted, his life turned up side down, and most likely his hastened death. Why, when we have the technology to save his life? Because, some guy in college fell in love with the Ayn Rand idea of ‘me’ over everyone else, or an old guy that acts as if no action is acceptable. That’s like watching someone drown and you standing on the dock ignoring the event, and it’s potential.
Maybe you guys, back there in Washington, D.C. need a reality check. Sometimes a bad ‘promise’ should be broken, and the Republicans have made some really bad promises over the last eight years., without any regard to the negative effect, those promises will have on a large portion of the American population.
Dar
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