01-15-2017, 12:17 AM
Democrats may get a political advantage from a repeal without replacement. They can be shown resisting the repeal and rejecting a grossly-inadequate replacement (like Health Savings Accounts). Getting the presidency and both Houses of Congress in 2021 they get to come up with something even better than Obamacare.
This is not so much a strategy as a silver lining, and it comes with the risk of Republicans consolidating complete, crushing power in the 2018 and 2020 elections and establishing as tight a single-Party state as China has now. Of course it is unconscionable ass it would result in people enduring medical deaths due to the lack of finances, but unconscionability rarely stops people on the totalitarian road.
This is not so much a strategy as a silver lining, and it comes with the risk of Republicans consolidating complete, crushing power in the 2018 and 2020 elections and establishing as tight a single-Party state as China has now. Of course it is unconscionable ass it would result in people enduring medical deaths due to the lack of finances, but unconscionability rarely stops people on the totalitarian road.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.