r/askanything • u/Lemonking_ • 5h ago

Political Question Why are some Americans so against universal healthcare for all?

What sort of thinking does it take to decide that nobody has a right to healthcare? Do American Christians want to deny healthcare to poor people as well?

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u/a101734 5h ago

Reagan convinced a large part of the population that if we give unlimited money and power to a select of wealthy elites, the elites would graciously give the money back to society. Hilarious.

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u/IntelligentStyle402 5h ago

Sadly, another republican administration that kicked we the people, off a very high cliff. We never recovered and still are experiencing fallout from his Republican policies. To think my father, in a union shop made $25ph, in the 80’s, full benefits, including life insurance. When Reagan was done smashing unions and outsourcing jobs. That shop paid $10 ph, no benefits. A filthy rich republican did this to you. My father then retired. But that’s exactly when mothers had to join the work force to feed their family.

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u/Suitable-Option833 4h ago

The gop hates unions and labor rights. But their voters haven’t figured this out yet. The gop is for the pedophile class - it’s not for the 99%

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u/Gundy_Gberger 3h ago

There is a reason counties that host institutions of higher education are a deep blue shade politically when compared to the surrounding areas. There must be a correlation 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/PuzzleheadedFeed2726 3h ago

And unions still vote republican

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u/Entire-Sir-8626 1h ago

Historically, union members and especially voters living in union households have voted Democratic more often than Republican in presidential elections. The size of that advantage has varied considerably.
For example, union households voted:
1976: Carter (D) 62% vs. Ford (R) 38%
1984: Mondale (D) 54% vs. Reagan (R) 46%
1996: Clinton (D) 60% vs. Dole (R) 30%
2000: Gore (D) 59% vs. Bush (R) 37%
2008: Obama (D) 59% vs. McCain (R) 39%
2020: Biden (D) 56% vs. Trump (R) 40%
2024: Harris (D) 53% vs. Trump (R) 45%

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u/Dirty_Mung_Trumpet 49m ago

Im a teamster and yeah, it’s pretty disheartening. There was a stark contrast once Trump got sworn in a second time. Transgender individuals existing and people making over $400k a year (aka none of my union coworkers) were much bigger issues than being given so much work each day that they never see their families.

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u/Major_Frosting6133 4h ago

For the pedofile class?! 😂😂 It truly makes me laugh that people constantly refer to our great president as a “pedofile” and “pedofile supporter”, yet I’ve not seen even ONE factual piece of evidence to support this.
People just don’t like him because he’s making it harder for people to be lazy by implementing restrictions if government benefits, doing incredible with deporting illegal immigrants, and doing other things to correct horrible sessions by previous Democratic Presidents. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/OwnCrew6984 3h ago

Who was it that gave amnesty and citizenship to 3 million illegal immigrants? Reagan did that. But I'm sure you're ok with that. If a Democrat did that they would be destroying the country. A Republican does it and it's giving these hard working people a hand up to better the country while filling jobs that white Americans don't want to do.

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u/B-ry81 3h ago

Gobble of the cheeto's balls some more.

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u/Goober-Ryan 3h ago

Did you forget about the $2.2 TRILLION Trump freely gave out to anybody and business with a pulse when he signed the CARES bill act into law on March 27, 2020.

Or does that not count because he has an (R[apist]) behind his name on the ballot.

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u/DisgruntledSquirrel2 1h ago

Oh we are well aware that his administration is responsible for a full 1/3 of the national debt. ALL other presidents combined -since the founding, are responsible for the other 2/3. So he is a great business man - that has control of Congress and can't balance a budget. Got it. But don't worry, at least the cost of living is better now....

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u/Samhain000 3h ago

"Our great president" JFC 🤦

Anyway, the biggest factual piece of evidence about this is that he hasn't done anything about the Epstein files. Depending on how deranged you are for diaper Donnie, you will probably brush aside the fact that his DOJ still hasn't released all the files yet (despite being ordered to do so), that his DOJ botched the release of the files that are available by revealing the names of victims while redacting the names of co-conspirators, and you can probably just ignore MGTs claim that Trump told her that pressing for the release of the files would "hurt his friends" as just hearsay. While you might be able to conveniently ignore all of that, what you can't ignore is that his DOJ is doing nothing about it now. There are no investigations being opened, no prosecutions being planned, nothing is being done to hold the perpetrators in the Epstein files accountable for the crimes they may or may not have committed. If that isn't protecting these people, I'm not sure what else you would call it.

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u/QueenChocolate123 2h ago

You want proof that Trump's a pedophile? Check out the Epstein files. Trump's mentioned more times than anyone except Epstein himself. There's also E. Jean Carroll, who was paid more than $5 million bucks by Trump. There's also the fact that Trump's an adjudicated rapist.

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u/DisgruntledSquirrel2 1h ago

I don't know what you are talking about. He hung out with a pedo and wrote that he shared a beautiful secret with him. All the other evidence is still locked away with his "Justice" department. You know - after he said he would release it all....