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[quote=Anonymous]I feel like you are confusing a bunch of different things.

Progressive policies like the healthcare subsidies don't exist because we all feel really sorry for people who don't have health insurance.

They exist because from a policy standpoint, uninsured people are a drag on society and result in a more expensive healthcare system than if everyone had access to health insurance. Uninsured people tend to avoid preventative care, because they can't afford it, and then show up in ERs with expensive medical crises they also can't afford, but it is inhumane to just let them die so hospitals fulfill their hippocratic oath and help them.

Politicians often engage in performative empathy to justify policies based on logic or the priorities. Think of when the Bush administration argued the war in Afghanistan had been undertaken to liberate people, especially women and girls, from the Taliban. BS. That war was a bunch of Neo-cons taking advantage of the connection between the Taliban and al Qaeda to seize foreign policy after 9-11. There might have been a bit of a savior complex at play, but the war was not undertaken for humanitarian reasons.

Forget empathy. Trump policies suck because they will drive this country into recession or depression, make us less safe by alienating our allies, and increase income disparity by squeezing people out of the middle class and into poverty. I oppose those policies not because I have some special empathy for people losing their healthcare subsidies right now, but because it's an idiotic and illogical way to run a country. The GOP doesn't even agree with this plan -- Trump always said they wanted to "repeal and replace" Obamacare with something better, because even the idiot kleptocrats in Trumpworld understand that having a bunch of uninsured people isn't going to work out great. But they are lazy and stupid, so they've just gone with trying to strip Obamacare of any teeth and then giving the cost savings to billionaires.

I don't care if you are empathetic or not. Most people are not. But please don't be stupid. I just want to live in a country where people are not stupid.[/quote]

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