Thread by @mhbx

@tommy_pane One last shot at registering something that might loosen your grip on this:
I I wish you c/would find something that actually resembles a plan in the Trumpian catalog.

Something more tangible than the bombastic demagoguery & claim to destroy something that many of the Trumpian

@tommy_pane 2/ faithful actually depend upon. It’s very similar to the tea party holding their angry outrage at the government trying to fix healthcare well demanding they don’t mess with their Social Security or Medicare.
The astonishing ignorance in the Trumpian hoi polloi is concerning.

@tommy_pane 3/ But that wasn’t really the point I intend to make here. Just a final observation of the quality of thinking that goes on in this stirred up, mob-based, outrage that Trump is so adroit at stoking. It really is his super power.
And like a mob, and like authoritarians we know

@tommy_pane 4/ you are so able do use that mob energy for their purposes, they are very capable at destroying things without having an idea of what they are creating, or what will replace the destruction.
The way it works out the leader(s) gets to decide.
And it never is what was promised.

@tommy_pane 5/So all of that just as a way to clearly demarcate my overall position.

Specifically you tend to think if I oppose Trump and his inanity, it must mean that I am a shield for the existing order. You say as much in this instance.

It never is the case. But I understand you need

@tommy_pane 6/ That straw man in order to hold your position.

If you were to read my thread/comments/mini essays on this point of healthcare you would find I am foundationally opposed to the system the way it is currently structured. Summarized in my line that

@tommy_pane 7/ Summarized by my line we do not have a healthcare system but a health insurance system.

The opening point of this wandering thread, wandering through your inability to agree to a very basic point, what is the opening of the hidden information.

A single necessary but not

@tommy_pane 8/ sufficient point/action.
It even has the quality of being a data point, a task in what otherwise would be a plan.

So no the point of this response is simply to stake out other ground other than your misconceptions.

We needed and still need a functional “Heath Care” system.

@tommy_pane 9/ But something so beneficial to the public was never going to come from the agency & efforts of Mr. Trump. A man who functions solely for his own benefit.

He left the country destitute & divided. It is uncertain if we will be able to recover. It will take remarkable effort.

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@tommy_pane 10/ The sad reality is you & Trumpian tribe may win in the end. It is likely in the short term that is what will happen.
It is always easier to destroy them to create.
It is always easier to be angry & upset rather than understand and heal.
Much easier to be righteous than right.

@tommy_pane 11/ And if such is our fate, & when/if we get to the other side of that history, those who were the players & enablers will deny, like the Germans, ever having played a part,
And others, and the world will look on and say how in the hell did that ever happen?

@tommy_pane 12/ hopefully learn something. Maybe a new consciousness is birthing. And maybe we will, as a species, actually learn this time.

Our history is not hopeful, but maybe our future is.

But we live in the present.where the battles continue.

Wonder what will happen to the ring?