The Second Trump Presidency

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Very good, and I would hope so.So as you weighed the candidates in this election, what were the Harris advantages over Trump, and what were the Trump advantages over Harris? (Please stay tuned for a response to the rest of 206...and 203.)

OK, please name the ones that you see as the top three.It seems that every time I think I have the worst sinistries of the health care system figured a new one pops up and takes center stage.

Trump speaks regularly of his Faith, God, and The Bible. You can never know a man's heart, but at a minimum he is giving vocal support.Biden claims he's Catholic. Biden has just awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Cecile Richards for women's reproductive rights, et al. Richards is a longtime ardent abortion supporter-activist. She was also the president of Planned Parenthood for over 10 years, during which time she oversaw ~4,000,000 abortions. Biden's actions are profoundly antithetical to Catholicism (and Christianity in general, Judaism, Islam,...)Trump wins in the animus toward faith department hands down. Please continue staying tuned for additional responses to 203 and 203. Thanks.

K.Rose, you are wrong. You should go away

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Trump is no Christian, he just mouths the words to pull the wool over the eyes of the gullible. But you know that and still pretend that Trump is a Christian, that reflects poorly on you. Do better.

Bullshit. This is a man who when questioned about forgiveness said he had nothing to be forgiven for. One of the central teachings of christianty is that we have all fallen, we've all sinned, we all need forgiveness. If he doesn't understand one of the central pillars of his alleged faith why would you think he's actually a christian?

Harris is a Christian. In what way do you see her as "less impressive" on the question of being an enemy of Christians?

US Healthcare is disproportionately expensive compared to other countries.Pricing is completely out of whack, with the prices charged to insurance companies having very little connection to list prices.Pharmaceutical companies are free to put prices up as they wish, subject only to public backlashAnd that’s not mentioning the obvious problem with basing a system on for-profit insurance companies, or the poor performance of US maternity care.Of course you don’t address the other issues like Republican opposition to reform or Trump’s broken promises.

I didn't count. I used the count-words-region function of Emacs. I just did it again, this time including the labels on your quotes, and I got 86. Ideally you'd understand the issues and would write about them in your own words. I didn't read your quotes. Harris was raised in a Black Baptist church and attended Hindu temple. She's a practicing Baptist and her husband is Jewish. The only time you'll see Trump in a church is if it's a campaign event. He's only telling Christians what they want to hear - they're being naive. Yeah, no kidding. Trump's second-term vision for America is far darker than his first. Trump has been active politcally on the national stage since 2015. If the jury is still out for you then you must be deaf and blind.--Percy

Your questions and statements presume some notion of Christian morality.Let me break it down:There are those who break the worldly/man’s law (criminals), and we defer to worldly laws and proceedings to right worldly wrongs.There are those who break Spiritual Law (sinners). Spiritual wrongs (sins) will be righted come Judgement Day. To condemn or forgive others their spiritual wrongs is completely beyond our human purview.We live in a world of man’s law, but we must abide by Spiritual Law, i.e., we are in this world but we are not of this world.Our world is imperfect, for a very basic but profound reason, and we are imperfect. It is folly to expect others to live up to one's morals all the time, indeed, one does not live up to one’s own morals all the time. That goes along with the imperfection.If you demand strict adherence to your morals of everyone you interact or do business with, hire or recommend, then you will not interact, do business, hire, or recommend. In addition, argumentation is not the way to share The Word, nor is forcing Biblical compliance by force of man’s law. WHAT THIS MEANSIn its most basic sense an election is simply the hiring of a guy to uphold the Constitution (man’s law), as inspired by the principles in the Declaration of Independence. We don’t look to this guy to enforce our Spiritual law beyond man’s law; we don’t expect him to demonstrate spiritual purity; he may even be atheist.This answers your questions, this is how a faithful Christian votes for Trump.So we have the two qualifiers for president that I presented earlier, and I’ve added a third for clarity.

1. The person who holds the least animus toward my faith.
2. The person and who will be the most just in upholding the worldly law.
3. If 1 & 2 are a 100% tie, then I can apply more trivial factors: The way they dress; their favorite celebrity; their various immutable characteristics; etc.

A final note: Once again, as I try to engage in a pro/con discussion of a Trump administration, while trying to keep things focused on policy, actions, and efficacy, I instead find my character/intelligence/motives under attack in voting for Trump. This is curiously, eerily similar to the powerful Trump opponents (Biden, Harris, Obamas, Clintons,…) attacking/vilifying/insulting/berating the little-guy voters on the other side while avoiding the meaningful questions and discussion directed toward them. In contrast, Trump tries to woo the little-guy voters on the other side, reserving the attacks for his powerful opponents.I challenge us to get back to the Topic of this Forum.
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but Trump doesn't uphold the Constitution. He shits all over it.

Agree wholeheartedly, though these are results of the problems, rather than root causes. I would add that pharmaceuticals made in the US cost more in the US than they do in other countries, in many cases.

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And that’s not mentioning the obvious problem with basing a system on for-profit insurance companies...

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Agree with this root cause wholeheartedly. I would add to the list:

• Lack of Tort Law reform - This drives up costs by driving up hospitals' liability costs and drives endless testing to protect against accusations of negligence. But hey, everyone in the medical care industry is OK with it because it increases revenue across the board because in the end the consumer (or government) pays for it all.
• Irresponsible patients and doctors: Patients don't want to change their unhealthy ways, they'd rather just take a pill that allows them to continue with their unhealthy ways. Doctors are all too willing to accommodate, rather than stress proper diet/exercise/behaviors, probably because if they don't do it the next guy will. Besides, unhealthy people generate revenue.
• Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM's) - The health care system's latest scourge.
• Unhealthy foods without guidance. The US diet is horrible. High-calorie, low-nutrition, with poisons, e.g., we buy additives, made in other countries that ban their use in their own countries, that make food cheaper, more appealing, and provide longer shelf life. RFK is onto something, we should listen.

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Of course you don’t address the other issues like Republican opposition to reform or Trump’s broken promises.

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OK, take digs at the republicans and Trump if you must. The republicans and democrats share equal blame for this, maybe one more than the other, not sure which it would be. Getting rid of Obamacare is not the silver bullet solution either, though Obamacare certainly plays a part in getting us to where we are in this mess, hastily implemented, political, and shortsighted as it was. Trump was right not t focus on getting rid of Obamacare, it wouldn't have solved anything, because the current problems affect the entire health care system.Trump has put together a highly motivated, sincere, and transparent team. Say what you want about them, but it only makes sense to give them a chance to do whatever they can do. Nothing else has been working, except maybe managing the decline at best.

How so?