By SJ Otto
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 ,”President Trump said in response to a question from ABC News during a visit to Arlington Cemetery
Just a few days ago, Jay Bookman, writing for The Atlanta Journal-Constitutiongave 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.”