“Name a force or impulse that threatens the stability of the American political system – distrust in the fairness of elections, conspiracy theorizing, the embrace of authoritarianism – and it is always more prevalent among rural Whites than among those living elsewhere."
~ Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy (New York: Random House, 2024), p. 5
“In the years following the Obamacare debate, multiple studies showed that racial resentments drove opposition to the ACA even when factors like party identification and political ideology are held constant. White voters’ knee-jerk opposition to Obamacare was always more about the ‘Obama’ part than the ‘care’ part.”
“Rejecting the ACA's Medicaid provision offers yet another example of rural White conservatives voting against their own material interests. Rural Whites, after all, are uninsured at higher rates than their urban White counterparts. ...
Rural opposition to Obamacare and Medicaid expansion was the third and final act of a self-destructive political-electoral drama."
"First, rural Whites voted for national and state politicians who sided with the corporate interests that decimated their industries and healthcare infrastructure. Next, they rewarded those same politicians for opposing life-saving and life-changing healthcare reforms. In the final and fatal act, many got sick, and some even died from lack of care or coverage.”
The conservatives are insured by the #GoFundMe healthcare plan. They tell me it's the only honest way to buy health insurance in the US. They obviously cannot trust anything with the #Obamacare label.
On the anniversary of the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, every single American needs to know that Trump has, again, promised to repeal it if he's elected. This would rip health care away 21 million people. Please help spread this far and wide.
@rbreich
Replace #ObamaCare (gift to health insurance profiteers, extortionists) premiums, high annual deductibles, co-pays, care denials, financial risks w/#SinglePayer#MedicareForAll#AmeriCare: Healthcare where and when you need, Uncle Sam pays the bills!🙏🖖✌️