To the editor:<\/p>\n
Obamacare is the last bit of the Obama legacy Trump has been unable to obliterate.\u00a0He has been telling us for 10 years that he\u2019s going to introduce a health care program that\u2019s way better than Obamacare: Better coverage, more affordable, but after all this time we have yet to see the barest outlines of a Trump health care program.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The current government shutdown is about the healthcare crisis in our country.\u00a0Democrats aren\u2019t asking for something that\u2019s not already on the books; they just want to keep in place subsidies under Obamacare that are allowing Americans to purchase health care coverage.\u00a0 If these subsidies are allowed to expire, as they soon will, millions will see their premiums skyrocket and health care will be unaffordable.\u00a0 Democrats also want cuts to Medicaid that have left many of our least fortunate citizens with no access to health care rescinded.<\/p>\n
The Republican position is, of course, let\u2019s open the government and we\u2019ll talk about health care.\u00a0 But they aren\u2019t willing to talk; if they were willing to negotiate, these cuts wouldn\u2019t be there in the first place.\u00a0 The reason why, after 10 years, we\u2019ve seen no Trump health care program is that he\u2019s not interested in health care; his narrative is the lie that says Democrats want to give free healthcare to undocumented immigrants.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Saturday, it\u2019s reckoned that 7 million Americans demonstrated against Trump\u2019s fear-based, authoritarian style of government.\u00a0 His reaction was to post a video depicting himself wearing a crown and piloting a jet aircraft over the demonstrators and dropping a payload of excrement upon them.\u00a0 As you well know, I\u2019m not making this up.\u00a0 Have we ever in our history witnessed a president with so much disdain for so many of those he\u2019s supposed to be governing?\u00a0 There\u2019s no doubt he was hoping at least some of the demonstrations would devolve into violence and give him a pretext to send in troops to batter demonstrators.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nixon was supposed to have had a secret list of enemies; Trump proclaims his list out loud and demands the DOJ find crimes with which to charge them.\u00a0 What we cannot do is allow Trump to normalize his outrages against the rule of law and our Constitution.\u00a0 We need a movement, led by our civic, university and corporate leaders, that will stand up for our democracy and reject authoritarian oligarchy.<\/p>\n
Ray Clasen<\/p>\n
North Fort Myers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Obamacare is the last bit of the Obama legacy Trump has been unable to obliterate.\u00a0He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-18937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}