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July 30, 2017 / John Pavlovitz
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The Republican leadership in our country has spent the past six months trying to repeal the legacy of a strong, intelligent, popular black manand they dont seem to care how many Americans they drive to bankruptcy or despair, or how many they kill in the process. It simply doesnt faze them. This appears to be about the political win regardless of the body countjust as long as they take down that one man.
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Barack Obama left office as a well-regarded President who brokered a nonpartisan solution to healthcare that was saving millions of peoples lives. Men like Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Mitch McConnell, Mike Pence, and Paul Ryan hate that. Their blood boils at such thoughts, and that seems to be the primary reason they are all-in on this madness. Theyre not concerned with insurance company gluttony or the rampant waste in our hospitals or the fundamental flaws in our healthcare systemotherwise that is where theyd be spending their time and influence and resources. Instead theyre attempting to cancel care for millions of families with nothing as their backup planexpecting us to trust that at some magical time in the future, their sense of compassion will overcome their contempt; a glorious day when theyll grow hearts for people who dont look like them.
Their conduct in these days, is in the very best case scenario, a vomit-inducing idolatry of party; a sickening sucking at the teat of wealth and power at the expense of millions of their brethren.
But at worst (and sadly more and more likely) is that this is simply legislated racism. It is an attempt by largely a group of white guys, to dismantle the legacy of a man, whose two most offensive traits as President were his competence and the color of his skin. Id love there to be another answer, but that just feels like whats happening here.
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Racism isnt a charge to make haphazardly or suggest on a whim, and its a fairly horrible reality to contemplate on that level. I certainly wish it was something else, because this is the country I live in, call home, and love dearly. I so want to believe that our President and his Administration and these angry men possess no such prejudicebut thats almost impossible because their actions wont allow it.
Sometimes you see evil and you try to convince yourself its something else.
And sometimes evil makes such a strong, continual, air-tight case for itselfthat you can only agree and weep over it all.
Glorfindel
(9,740 posts)However, "sucking at the teat of wealth and power at the expense of millions of their brethren" is giving the Repukes too much credit. They don't see us as their brethren. They see us as expendable inconveniences at best and as a waste of protoplasm at worst.
SWBTATTReg
(22,191 posts)Seems like tRUMP is fixated on undoing anything Obama does...perhaps all tied back to when Obama joked about tRUMP at a WH correspondences' dinner?
Ligyron
(7,644 posts)Trump is just a petty little 3rd grader that got a public ass whooping on the political playground for his racist birther bullshit. Deservedly so.
No matter what he and his GOP enablers do, we'll fix it again when they are gone.
... and then some.
infullview
(982 posts)At least that's how I saw it the minute Mitch McConnell vowed no cooperation with the Obama administration. A Bunch of rich white guys all grumbling because a black man had bested them at their own game.
YCHDT
(962 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,064 posts)Horse with no Name
(33,958 posts)but there were many concessions made to the republicans in committees.
Most of which are the things that are the most unpopular.
bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)It(the racism) started before he was elected, gathered steam the VERY night of his inauguration and continued through his Presidency with Lyin' Ryan and McTurtle, just to name a couple, leading the charge.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/01/21/1180899/-Flashback-Inauguration-Day-January-20-2009
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Now trCHUMP and his regime is actively trying to undo What President Obama did.
The only bright spot is that no matter what they do, President Obama will go down as one of the greatest Presidents in history while trCHUMP's presidency, will more than likely, be listed as the worst and most failed of any presidency.
The attempted erasure of President Obama won't go unnoticed though.
Of that, I am sure.
SWBTATTReg
(22,191 posts)Obama presided over one of longest positive economic time periods, ever.
Now, republicans are going to try and destroy Obama's economic legacy, w/ dogma that doesn't work, e.g., state of KS failed economic experiment (cut taxes drastically etc.) that governor Brownback initiated...
Prepare yourselves!!
BumRushDaShow
(129,882 posts)Eight years of blocking and 7 months of trying to dismantle. Because. Obama. They are a bunch of sick fucks.