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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh No!!! - Now that ObamaCare is enacted, they'll never win another presidential election.
ObamaCare isn't going to turn America into a country of lazy moochers. It's going to turn middle class white folks into stronger supporters of the federal government, and therefore the Democratic Party. It's the same reason a lot of retired white folks support the Democrats. The Democrats created Social Security and Medicare, and old folks know that.
The evangelicals and Tea Partiers seem to think this is a sinister plot to buy enough support to win elections in perpetuity. It's not a plot, but opposing ObamaCare is going to be even less popular than opposing Social Security. So, yeah, it's doom time for the old Republican Party.
And that seems to be what they're all preoccupied with. They feel like Obama came in and enjoyed total victory over them and their way of life. Now that ObamaCare is enacted, they'll never win another presidential election. The country will just get more tolerant of gays..it's terrible.
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just notice the worried look on that elephant's face!!!
Bernardo de La Paz
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(23,733 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)FDR guided us through the Great Depression and WW2. It would take a lot more to measure up to him even remotely.
That said, Obama will go down in history as the first president to enact what will eventually become single-payor Medicare. I think the phrase Obamacare will stick and be a monument to his achievement. My guess is even a new single payor system will be called Obamacare.
I wouldn't go that far with comparing Obama to Roosevelt but Obamacare does have the potential to turn into something monumental.
Bernardo de La Paz
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(23,733 posts)RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)Well said. They're afraid that we'll see that a stronger welfare state benefits us all.