The Great Partisan Divide

[kentuck]

Republicans Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy are leading an effort to repeal large parts of the ACA. Of course, they never call it the Affordable Care Act, they call it "Obamacare", as if that somehow changes its value to citizens in need of healthcare.

The political impact of their actions will lead to partisan divisions unlike any we have seen in our lifetimes. They are already clinging to bi-partisanship by the thinnest of threads. Very little can get done with bi-partisanship anymore.

But, this act by Graham and Cassidy and the Republicans will cut that final thread of bi-partisanship. It will be all-out political war.

[Afromania]

1. It's so absurd.

The "Republican Party" isn't on the side of anybody. They aren't even on the side of the people that vote for them anymore. I guess they don't have to be when they have carefully subverted any sort of rational thinking in regards to race by their "customers".

The middle and underprivileged classes don't get much in the grand scheme of things. The ACA is something that benefited people on the bottom more so than the middle and much more than the top, but it did actually help just about everybody. There have been outliers of course but that could have been fixed if the "Republican Party" wasn't actively engaged in sabotage. The people caught in the middle of this running war would see it for what it is. That is of course if they would get over the fact that it had a nickname of a black man attached to it.

You're probably right at this point. I don't think there is any coming back for that part of this country. They are so deeply entrenched in politics of no, hate and sticking it to the "other guy" that won't even recognize that their air is being fouled, water polluted, pockets picked and actual existences shortened until it's far too late.