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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It's obviously not perfect, but it's not exploding. See this, for example:
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/27/521441...loding-its-not
I'm sure you can cite lots of article. There is a whole press-like industry built up to satisfy the need that conservatives have to believe and hear what you're saying. |
It's part of why the Republicans can't engage on healthcare policy. Every time they try to engage reality, even in the form of a CBO scoring by a hand-picked conservative, it's like hitting a brick wall for them. They can't believe everything chicken little said on Fox/Breitbart/InfoWars isn't true (and those three channels are getting increasingly close together and closer to the InfoWars space).
Tom Cotton, surprisingly, is right. What the Rs need is a lengthy hearing process discuss healthcare issues the way the Dems did during ACA. They need their 100 days of hearings. And they need conservatives to deal with reality in those hearings and try to figure out a policy that deals with reality, and, most importantly, get their constituents to deal with reality so they don't all get primaried if they do something rational.
It won't happen, of course. That's not how they do things. Remember, the biggest news in Tom Cotton's statement was that he acknowledged that the Democrats had a lengthy, information filled process - even though the country lived through almost 18 months of it, the Rs never admitted it and their base still believes the bill was rushed through in the dead of night (even a lot of Bernie supports have bought this rubbish).
