That would be Hillary's base in West Virginia. They uneducated, unthinking, hard working WHITE Americans. The people who see education as the devils work.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Even when you're covered, you aren't guaranteed good health care. You can hear case after case of anecdotal reporting about doctors who are incompetent to treat, as in the case of my neighbor, who has multiple problems, including lupus, a pacemaker, arthritis--and is 31 yrs old. Her last local doctor (in an allegedly prestigious heart clinic) did not give her the proper medication, resulting in yet another trip to the emergency room, and a visit to her main heart doctor in Winston-Salem, 90 miles away.
Unfortunately, too many undereducated people rely on the degreed professionals to make the correct decisions in health issues--which they don't.
My granddaughter also reported to me on Sun that a PT CNA working in her clinic gave an overdosing injection of an allergy medication to one of their patients, resulting in the patient going into anaphylactic shock, respiratory distress, and a trip to the hospital in critical condition. It was a common mistake--and one made all too frequently in other scenarios, as well..
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Think of it this way: a lot of HRC's vaunted "base" will be dead by November...so there's that old Electability Argument gone.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Education and income play a significant role in access to health care but I think there's a whole lot more to it than that. I think it's the full set of education, income plus some subliminal factors that are in play: access to health care includes location, social factors such as finding the appropriate health care people, references, and even personal relationships developed through social groups such as the country club church, the poltiical interactions, even the neighborhoods we live in. I just don't accept the idea that education levels alone or even income levels alone have as big a factor to play in meaningful health care as, say, playing ping pong with your doctor's kids. It's a tangled setup at best.
ClayPotts
· 1 year ago
Republicans view the death gap as collateral damage in the war on education. Their plan to destroy the public school system has a higher cost than they will ever be able to perceive.
taodon
· 1 year ago
Let us not forget that the less-educated tend to favor Senator Clinton as well...
jr
· 1 year ago
caste system in action
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
"How did we become such a self-centered country, leaving so many behind?"
It seems to me it went into high gear with the election of Regan.
-Carter was a pussy and you are a pussy too if you care about the less fortunate. If they don't want to be less fortunate they can just get up off their lazy ass and make something of themselves.
That is what I felt the message was.
JMOHR
· 1 year ago
It was the success and security provided by the Greatest Generation that has permitted the Republican elite and wealthy interests to derail the American Dream.
The United States had been faced by a serious problem because of the excesses and income disparity of the Gilded Age as well as the social unrest that swept the world during the Great Depression. We saw the reactions of some countries becoming dictatorships, the growth of the Communist party and the adoption of socialist policies in many countries.
The United States did not succumb to fascism. FDR looked at mixing the best of capitalism with a strong social safety net. WWII did indeed bring the US together in a sense of self sacrifice. The GI Bill became the engine of creating one of the best educated work forces in the world and spearheaded US success in the post war markets. A strong union workforce ensured that the wealth would be shared. SSN, welfare, Medicare and (later on) the Great Society programs of Johnson gave security to the great majority of the American people.
It was the success of our social programs that have led to the current self centered nature of our country. When the vast majority do well, the minority that fail will be seen as less deserving. After all, hard work and diligence would result in success and a piece of the pie and those who are failing must be responsible for their own failure. In some cases that would indeed be true and more visible. In other cases it would not.
The conservative elites wanted a return to the Gilded Age. They wanted to dismantle the New Deal and the Great Society Program. They were able to build myths of the welfare queen, lazy poor, unfair affirmative action for minorities and perceived over taxation. This coupled with cultural excesses of the sixties gave the conservative elite the opening they were looking for. Unions were busted, limits placed upon business regulation, taxes lowered (with most the benefit to the richest and the working class receiving increases in regressive state and local taxes), and cultural issues pushed to reinforce the concept that if you failed it was your own damn fault .
We now see the result. Income disparity has now reached the levels seen during the Gilded Age. Welfare has been radically reduced, the burden of the war not shared. Hopefully people are waking up to what has happened and we will see the shared burden and shared success again.
ceu
· 1 year ago
Chris, grat to see you back. I missed your posts the last few days.
MorgaineSwann
· 1 year ago
The corporations that run this country have a financial interest in keep us uneducated. Uneducated workers demand less, put up with more, have no power to negotiate for their own interests. The less educated are also more easily persuaded to sacrifice their children to the military for abstracts like "patriotism" or "honor" and war is the greatest money-making game in town. Their wages provide the taxes corporations steal with no-bid contracts, subsidies and bail-outs. They're easily manipulated by the church, the media, and government, so the people in charge have no interest in educating them.
I've had to deal with a bunch of Kentuckians where my mother is in the hospital and it is extremely disheartening. I've been told by nurses and physical therapists, who are better educated than the majority of people in this area, that Obama won't salute the flag, that he's a Muslim, he's not American, and that the earthquake in China is evidence that "the lord" needs to come back soon.
There is no way he will ever reach these people. They believe what they hear in church and their pastors are usually partially, if not completely, illiterate. I can state with a reasonable degree of certainty that most of what these people know is patently wrong, and there's nothing to be done about it.
Obama needs to figure out a way to win the election without them, because he won't be able to overcome the prejudices and misconceptions that surround him in their minds. A pox on Hillary for exploiting that, and them.
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Unfortunately, too many undereducated people rely on the degreed professionals to make the correct decisions in health issues--which they don't.
My granddaughter also reported to me on Sun that a PT CNA working in her clinic gave an overdosing injection of an allergy medication to one of their patients, resulting in the patient going into anaphylactic shock, respiratory distress, and a trip to the hospital in critical condition. It was a common mistake--and one made all too frequently in other scenarios, as well..
It seems to me it went into high gear with the election of Regan.
-Carter was a pussy and you are a pussy too if you care about the less fortunate. If they don't want to be less fortunate they can just get up off their lazy ass and make something of themselves.
That is what I felt the message was.
The United States had been faced by a serious problem because of the excesses and income disparity of the Gilded Age as well as the social unrest that swept the world during the Great Depression. We saw the reactions of some countries becoming dictatorships, the growth of the Communist party and the adoption of socialist policies in many countries.
The United States did not succumb to fascism. FDR looked at mixing the best of capitalism with a strong social safety net. WWII did indeed bring the US together in a sense of self sacrifice. The GI Bill became the engine of creating one of the best educated work forces in the world and spearheaded US success in the post war markets. A strong union workforce ensured that the wealth would be shared. SSN, welfare, Medicare and (later on) the Great Society programs of Johnson gave security to the great majority of the American people.
It was the success of our social programs that have led to the current self centered nature of our country. When the vast majority do well, the minority that fail will be seen as less deserving. After all, hard work and diligence would result in success and a piece of the pie and those who are failing must be responsible for their own failure. In some cases that would indeed be true and more visible. In other cases it would not.
The conservative elites wanted a return to the Gilded Age. They wanted to dismantle the New Deal and the Great Society Program. They were able to build myths of the welfare queen, lazy poor, unfair affirmative action for minorities and perceived over taxation. This coupled with cultural excesses of the sixties gave the conservative elite the opening they were looking for. Unions were busted, limits placed upon business regulation, taxes lowered (with most the benefit to the richest and the working class receiving increases in regressive state and local taxes), and cultural issues pushed to reinforce the concept that if you failed it was your own damn fault .
We now see the result. Income disparity has now reached the levels seen during the Gilded Age. Welfare has been radically reduced, the burden of the war not shared. Hopefully people are waking up to what has happened and we will see the shared burden and shared success again.
I've had to deal with a bunch of Kentuckians where my mother is in the hospital and it is extremely disheartening. I've been told by nurses and physical therapists, who are better educated than the majority of people in this area, that Obama won't salute the flag, that he's a Muslim, he's not American, and that the earthquake in China is evidence that "the lord" needs to come back soon.
There is no way he will ever reach these people. They believe what they hear in church and their pastors are usually partially, if not completely, illiterate. I can state with a reasonable degree of certainty that most of what these people know is patently wrong, and there's nothing to be done about it.
Obama needs to figure out a way to win the election without them, because he won't be able to overcome the prejudices and misconceptions that surround him in their minds. A pox on Hillary for exploiting that, and them.