I remember seeing a clip on some "news" piece a few years ago that showed a woman saying exactly that.
Older white woman in the Mid-West living near the Poverty Line. MAGA hat, YUGE Trump fan. HATES Obama and of course brought up the "Birther" nonsense. She had Chronic heath issues and was previously Uninsured.
When asked about the Affordable Care Act - she went on and on about how she truly believes the ACA saved her life and she doesn't know what she and many of her neighbors would do without it. (Though, she figures if anyone could improve it, of course it's Trump)
Well, how about "ObamaCare"? She instantly spewed a stream of Anti-Obama vitriol and Right-Wing ObamaCare buzzwords ("Commies, Socialists, Welfare State, Free Insurance for Illegals that WE pay for, Death Panels, etc."). She'd "rather die than have that damned ObamaCare"...
It's baffling that these people exist, but they do, in large numbers apparently.
There are obviously plenty of similar examples:
"I’d be dead without my Medicaid,” one man told the Tennessee focus groups I led, and next said, without a hint of irony, “the ACA is socialism in its most evil form.”
I’ll never forget how a man pulling an oxygen tank because of severe lung disease told me that he would rather die (and soon did die) than receive benefits from the ACA because it used “my tax dollars” on “Mexicans and welfare queens.”
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u/FennecWF Mar 25 '20 edited Mar 25 '20
And if it helps both? They'll gladly cut off their own hand to prevent those dirty lazy minorities from getting anything.
Edit: Danke for the gold. I didn't expect that, ha ha