Posted on 02/13/2016 6:06:05 AM PST by Theoria
There's nothing irrational about Donald Trump's appeal to the white working class, writes Charles Murray: they have every reason to be angry
If you are dismayed by Trumpism, don't kid yourself that it will fade away if Donald Trump fails to win the Republican nomination. Trumpism is an expression of the legitimate anger that many Americans feel about the course that the country has taken, and its appearance was predictable. It is the endgame of a process that has been going on for a half-century: America's divestment of its historic national identity.
For the eminent political scientist Samuel Huntington, writing in his last book, "Who Are We?" (2004), two components of that national identity stand out. One is our Anglo-Protestant heritage, which has inevitably faded in an America that is now home to many cultural and religious traditions. The other is the very idea of America, something unique to us. As the historian Richard Hofstadter once said, "It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one."
What does this ideology--Huntington called it the "American creed"--consist of? Its three core values may be summarized as egalitarianism, liberty and individualism. From these flow other familiar aspects of the national creed that observers have long identified: equality before the law, equality of opportunity, freedom of speech and association, self-reliance, limited government, free-market economics, decentralized and devolved political authority.
As recently as 1960, the creed was our national consensus. Running that year for the Democratic nomination, candidates like John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey genuinely embraced the creed, differing from Republicans only in how its elements should be realized.
Today, the creed has lost its authority and its substance. What happened?
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1) what about the people who still can't afford it, and make too much to qualify for Medicaid? According to Trump's quote in the link you proved, he's promised "universal coverage. So how does Trump ensure that those people who cannot afford coverage are covered?
2) will it be like car insurance in terms of people being required to buy it? Like...an individual mandate?? Or will people be allowed not to carry health insurance if they don't want to? And if that is the case, how can he fulfill his promise of "universal coverage?"
3) if you're really talking about making it like auto insurance...I don't think you actually understand the issues.
The reason health insurance policies are not sold across state lines is because each state has its own coverage requirements. So, a policy sold in one state generally won't meet the coverage requirements in another, so a different policy must be written.
But in fact, states also have their own coverage requirements for auto insurance, so that you may have to change your car insurance coverage when moving to a different state. You may be able to buy your car insurance from the same company, bit the policy details may change. Which is exactly how it is with health coverage right now.
But to be able to sell the exact same health insurance coverage over state lines, you'd have to eliminate the right of each state to mandate certain minimum coverages. That's not even the case with car insurance right now.
If that is the case then why am I allowed, living in Utah to get car insurance cheaper than in Utah?
He said he is going to make sure Medicare is fixed for those that need it...
You have to have faith in the man...I don’t know if your for Trump or not, but what he has said about job market and taxes and the middle east has come true...look at what he has said about Germany and over there...
If your not for Trump then go vote for someone else that you feel will be better suited for your needs, I like Trump and have supported him 100% from the day he announced, I have my own mind and when I have a question, I research it...I gave you my answers, you have to figure out your decisions on your own, it’s call freedom....
“I support Donald Trump because I prefer him to civil war.”
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You do realize that you have just “coined” a T-shirt slogan bonanza, don’t you???
I hope so. I’d love someone to steal it.
If you have disclosed to your auto insurance company that your vehicle is now based in a new state, and that new state has higher minimum insurance requirements (minimum liability coverages, etc.) that are not met by your cheaper policy from another state, then you are not in compliance with the auto insurance law of your new state.
Now, it may be that your old policy actually does comply with the minimum requirements of your new state, in which case that issue is irrelevant, and you.just have a cheaper insurance company - state has nothing to do with it.
But health insurance requirements are far more complicated/intricate, and generally vary more from state to state. That's the only reason that health insurance policies generally don't cross state lines -because they are regulated at the state level. Because otherwise, there is absolutely nothing prohibiting a health insurance company from selling identical policies in different states.
So in sum, to make health insurance policies generally applicable across state lines (which a lot of the GOP candidates do support), the federal government would have to wipe out the right of states to set their own insurance requirements.
So true! First industry targeted, then individuals. Standards were established, then tightened, then tightened again...and the invasion of individual privacy and property rights continues to get worse. Entire industries have been or are being bankrupted and others have moved their manufacturing offshore.
So which agency of all the overweening Federal Agencies is the absolute worst?
That’s like asking which arm of an octopus is the most dangerous.
They make up moving target emissions standards, and if it looks like they will be met, the make up some new ones. This is the mechanism by which they have closed coal-fired generating plants and virtually killed off the coal industry.
They declared that Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant, and that they thus can regulate CO2, right down to the air you breathe out.
They have declared dominion over "intermittent wetlands" (mudholes) and other small bodies of water, and can fine you for filling them in.
They waged war on hydraulic fracturing, a process yet to be shown to ruin groundwater, and attempted to prove it was evil. When they failed in their construction of test wells (the USGS wouldn't even sample the one, it was so bad), they promptly GAVE over a million acres of Wyoming, including the area where the test wells were located (and a few towns) to the Wind River Indian Tribe, effectively changing jurisdictions to Federal/Tribal of private property without so much as a 'by your leave'. The matter is in litigation because the Agency has no authority to give away part of a State and change its boundaries without Congressional action to that effect.
That's just a warmup, but everything produced in the US is subject to EPA regulations at some level, and the effect has been that entire industries are moving factories and jobs offshore.
Sad to say, but that isn't going to make America Great, ever.
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