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In his stunningly concise article, "Why Repeal and Replace Is Going So Badly," Josh Marshall introduces the concept of "Nonsense Debt" -- not monetary debt, per se, but the cultural debt that comes due when you spout increasingly ungrounded levels of nonsense to true believers, with the inevitable requirement to "up the ante" in order to remain relevant.
Eventually, as they say, "Sh!t hits the fan...."
POLITICAL INBREEDING has created POLITICAL IDIOTS, basically.
Handed the sceptre of power, and unaware they could use it for transformational GOOD ... Republicans/Conservatives are just going to start beating people to death with it.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-repeal-and-replace-is-going-so-badly
caroldansen
(725 posts)PsychoBabble
(837 posts)I disagreed with them, and thought they were WRONG ... but not cataclysmically, end-of-the-US-as-we-know-it wrong.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Yavin4
(35,445 posts)Lord help us all.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)"We all voted to repeal last year, we just need to vote that way again."
Someone probably ought to put a photo of him in the dictionary next to the word 'clueless'.
Everyone else in the country knew it was posturing except him. Kentucky is one of the few red states with Medicaid Expansion.
PsychoBabble
(837 posts)Every "system" decision has a cost.
For democratic decisions, it is usually that we are too generous, and people find ways to take advantage of us while we are in the process of helping people. It DOES happen.
For conservatives, it is that people die because you aren't willing to help them, because somebody (see above) might get something they didn't "earn."
"They deserved it." So they create systems where almost nobody gets nothing.
It really IS a clash of mindsets, and worldviews, that seem increasingly incompatible to me.
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)the Nonsense Party