BA, part of it pure obstructionism -- there are vast swaths of the Republican Party who would rather sink the country than allow a Democratic president have any lasting positive legacy.
Part of it is a genuine and sincere difference in belief about the role and scope of government in the lives of citizens (admittedly, cranked up to 11 and wandering slightly off the scale at points, but still...).
And another part of it is tinfoil hat-level reactionaryism, fearing that once the US joins every other industrial nation in having national health care, the jackbooted thugs of the United Nations will come out of the holes they've been lurking in all these years to take away their guns and their Bibles, and impose Godless Communism(TM) and the NWO on the oppressed rich white men who are the only true backbone of America. Because a man is only free if he has a gun, a Bible, and a chance to go bankrupt if his medical bills get too large.
No particular Republican in the House embodies all three of these, but from what I can tell, a large number embrace at least two...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Part of it is a genuine and sincere difference in belief about the role and scope of government in the lives of citizens (admittedly, cranked up to 11 and wandering slightly off the scale at points, but still...).
And another part of it is tinfoil hat-level reactionaryism, fearing that once the US joins every other industrial nation in having national health care, the jackbooted thugs of the United Nations will come out of the holes they've been lurking in all these years to take away their guns and their Bibles, and impose Godless Communism(TM) and the NWO on the oppressed rich white men who are the only true backbone of America. Because a man is only free if he has a gun, a Bible, and a chance to go bankrupt if his medical bills get too large.
No particular Republican in the House embodies all three of these, but from what I can tell, a large number embrace at least two...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.