Ray9
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These are strange times we live in and Americans are witnessing a phenomenon that starkly brings home the reality that there is vast difference between a classless society and a society with no class. The antics of Colin Kaepernick and Serena Williams notwithstanding, Americans know that it is almost unheard of for a former president to comment on or criticize a sitting president especially in the first term when the new administration is just getting underway.
The smooth transition of power has always been seen as necessary to ensure the stability of the nation after the voters have spoken. But Donald Trump’s election was such an unanticipated repudiation of elitist politics as usual that Barack Obama has broken with tradition and is accusing Trump of being a symptom of resentment and a threat to our way of life.
Trump is a threat but he is a threat to crooked career politicians on both sides of the aisle in US Congress. Consider Obama’s signature accomplishment, The Affordable Care Act. It was a disaster that would have destroyed health insurance in America and ushered Americans into a third world healthcare system.
The first thing Congress did was to go into back rooms with lawyers and craft a technicality to allow them to impose the ACA onto the people but escape the calamity themselves. They removed themselves from their own healthcare package and subjected themselves to the ACA in 2010 but only on paper. When the phase-in actually occurred in 2014 Suddenly Congress was a “small business” qualifying it for generous subsidies that average people can never get.
In the entire history of America Congress has never been thought of as a small business but it is now so crooked career politicians can foist catastrophic legislation onto the people while they protect themselves from the ruinous effects. By the way, how many republicans objected to the small business scam? If you get a number bigger than zero get another accountant.
Obama is out there casting aspersions on Trump because Trump exposes a rotten status quo which is why he was elected in the first place. It’s also why all these seditious investigations are going on. The corrupted status quo has to overthrow the election because it could be investigated itself by a “real” investigation.
They are hanging together because if Trump survives they are going to hang separately
The smooth transition of power has always been seen as necessary to ensure the stability of the nation after the voters have spoken. But Donald Trump’s election was such an unanticipated repudiation of elitist politics as usual that Barack Obama has broken with tradition and is accusing Trump of being a symptom of resentment and a threat to our way of life.
Trump is a threat but he is a threat to crooked career politicians on both sides of the aisle in US Congress. Consider Obama’s signature accomplishment, The Affordable Care Act. It was a disaster that would have destroyed health insurance in America and ushered Americans into a third world healthcare system.
The first thing Congress did was to go into back rooms with lawyers and craft a technicality to allow them to impose the ACA onto the people but escape the calamity themselves. They removed themselves from their own healthcare package and subjected themselves to the ACA in 2010 but only on paper. When the phase-in actually occurred in 2014 Suddenly Congress was a “small business” qualifying it for generous subsidies that average people can never get.
In the entire history of America Congress has never been thought of as a small business but it is now so crooked career politicians can foist catastrophic legislation onto the people while they protect themselves from the ruinous effects. By the way, how many republicans objected to the small business scam? If you get a number bigger than zero get another accountant.
Obama is out there casting aspersions on Trump because Trump exposes a rotten status quo which is why he was elected in the first place. It’s also why all these seditious investigations are going on. The corrupted status quo has to overthrow the election because it could be investigated itself by a “real” investigation.
They are hanging together because if Trump survives they are going to hang separately
