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Right after the devastating and really unexpected re-election of the despised Brownback I was at the doctor's office, talking with an intake clerk. Somehow the conversation got around to the election and how screwed the citizens of KS will continue to be. She quietly confided that her sister had recently died due to the lack of Medicaid expansion here. Her sister required a very expensive medicine to treat a deadly health condition. But the poor woman could not afford to buy the medicine and feed her two children. The family chipped in but it wasn't enough. This is a common but always heartbreaking story. I almost cried with her in sorrow. Because of this personal tragedy she worked like crazy to throw out Brownback. But to no avail. She and her husband are now raising the two kids and looking to move to a less draconian state.
I believe there will be a critical tipping point where even those who normally vote Republican will say "enough" death and destruction. I thought we were there this election, but clearly not.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)I think this country is in for a lot of pain first.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)avoidable), in a larger sense, the pain will ensure that counter-revolutionary elements will be even further demoralized, such that repeats of the collapse of the USSR and the counter-revolution in the People's Republic of China will be far less likely. Such a shame, though, what happened to that clerk's sister. Entirely preventable and thus avoidable, but not under capitalism, unfortunately.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)It was a spontaneous outpouring of grief, over both her sister's death and her inability to prevent it happening to others.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)there was a thread here that the share of wealth controlled by the 0.1% (yes, that's right, 1/10 of one percent) almost equals the share of wealth controlled by the bottom 90% combined. That is an extraordinary statistic, reminiscent of Moscow on Nov 6, 1917.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Their goal is to make the rest of us surfs under their rule.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)My husband and I are pretty well off and have excellent insurance. But I have a heart, which apparently the 0.1% don't.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)easy to do that. Some of them even have elected criminals and still they cannot get rid of them.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)People will start moving away, at least those that have enough resources to do so.