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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Meme - ACA Repeal Will Kill Only Unwanted Mexicans, Blacks Costly Sick & Disabled Anyway. NBD.
This meme is the primary meme that GOP legislators whisper to their base and allies. The real truth is that what repeal is really all about but no one will voice it out in the open publicly. And it is an accurate accusation. The actions bleed racism and bigotry on the highest scale
davekriss
(4,618 posts)Despite the fact that the GOP and anyone buying in to the meme are morally repugnant, it also flies against the facts. We'd be returning to pre-ACA times where 18,000 to 48,000 per year were dying due to lack of access to affordable healthcare. And a majority of those numbers were low to mid middle class whites that fell between the cracks. The Kimmel Test applies, because except for the Grace of the Universe, all except the rich can fall between the cracks at any time.
Willie Pep
(841 posts)This is standard conservative ideology. It is a form of primitive thinking that we should have discarded a long time ago but we are stuck with it since many people really do think like this. That is why social programs should be as universal as possible because it is easy to single out unpopular groups for punishment as "leeches" or whatever.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)Is to point out a lot of those sick andsdisabled were the ones in the maga hats.