The Republicans and Donald Trump are the true friends of the American (white) working class, and want to protect them from the Democrats who are not their friends but their enemies.
Ditto seniors, Social Security, and Medicare.
His fans believe this.
And they believe that absurd nonsense about Venezuela.
Donald Trump: Democrats 'Medicare for All' plan will demolish promises to seniors
I also made a solemn promise to our great seniors to protect Medicare.
That is why I am fighting so hard against the Democrats' plan that would eviscerate Medicare.
Democrats have already harmed seniors by slashing Medicare by more than $800 billion over 10 years to pay for Obamacare.
Likewise, Democrats would gut Medicare with their planned government takeover of American health care.
The Democrats' plan means that after a life of hard work and sacrifice, seniors would no longer be able to depend on the benefits they were promised.
By eliminating Medicare as a program for seniors, and outlawing the ability of Americans to enroll in private and employer-based plans, the Democratic plan would inevitably lead to the massive rationing of health care.
Doctors and hospitals would be put out of business.
Seniors would lose access to their favorite doctors.
There would be long wait lines for appointments and procedures.
Previously covered care would effectively be denied.
In practice, the Democratic Party’s so-called Medicare for All would really be Medicare for None. Under the Democrats' plan, today’s Medicare would be forced to die.
The Democrats' plan also would mean the end of choice for seniors over their own health care decisions.
Instead, Democrats would give total power and control over seniors’ health care decisions to the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.
The first thing the Democratic plan will do to end choice for seniors is eliminate Medicare Advantage plans for about 20 million seniors as well as eliminate other private health plans that seniors currently use to supplement their Medicare coverage.
Next, the Democrats would eliminate every American’s private and employer-based health plan.
It is right there in their proposed legislation:
Democrats outlaw private health plans that offer the same benefits as the government plan.
Americans might think that such an extreme, anti-senior, anti-choice and anti-consumer proposal for government-run health care would find little support among Democrats in Congress.
Unfortunately, they would be wrong: 123 Democrats in the House of Representatives — 64 percent of House Democrats — as well as 15 Democrats in the Senate have already formally co-sponsored this legislation.
Democratic nominees for governor in Florida, California and Maryland are all campaigning in support of it, as are many Democratic congressional candidates.
The truth is that the centrist Democratic Party is dead.
The new Democrats are radical socialists who want to model America’s economy after Venezuela.
If Democrats win control of Congress this November, we will come dangerously closer to socialism in America.
Government-run health care is just the beginning.
Democrats are also pushing massive government control of education, private-sector businesses and other major sectors of the U.S. economy.
. . . .
Today’s Democratic Party is for open-borders socialism.
This radical agenda would destroy American prosperity. Under its vision, costs will spiral out of control.
Taxes will skyrocket.
And Democrats will seek to slash budgets for seniors’ Medicare, Social Security and defense.
Republicans believe that a Medicare program that was created for seniors and paid for by seniors their entire lives should always be protected and preserved.
I am committed to resolutely defending Medicare and Social Security from the radical socialist plans of the Democrats.
For the sake of our country, our prosperity, our seniors and all Americans — this is a fight we must win.
Well, what the heck.
Many do and others will believe that utter horseshit about civil war, too.
Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, beloved paragons of movement conservatism, both denounced Medicare before its creation as Communism's nose under the American tent, guaranteed to destroy American liberty in short order.
(Much as their elders had said of Social Security in 1935.)
Because Democrats want to destroy American capitalism and are determined to replace it with total - and totalitarian - socialism.
Between the bareknuckle capitalism of the McKinley era and out-and-out Stalinism there is no real stopping point.
The Dems want to go the whole way.
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