Two people were recently shown in an interview by ABC
network's national TV news. These people are in Kentucky,
in a county that voted for Donald Trump. And both are people with serious
medical problems. Theirs is a coal-mining area, and I think at least one of the
two men has black lung disease.
They rely on "Obama Care"; one of the men said he
didn't know what he'd do without his health care coverage. Yet he voted for
Trump (as did the other man), despite the fact that Trump's promises might well
take away this man's health insurance.
Is this illogical only to me? I don't think it's nice to
wish anybody ill. But if this man loses his health insurance, I would say to him-given
the chance--that he brought that on himself when he cast his ballot for Trump.
Well I guess it's not news that Homo sapiens is not always a
completely logical animal. And neither Americans in general nor Kentucky
coal miners have any monopoly on illogicality. Yet I was certain that Trump
supporters had begun to understand their mistake. So far that does not seem to
be the case.
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