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Oh hey, they're talking about me.
The meds are so insanely expensive that even working, the jobs I am qualified for do not provide good enough insurance to cover enough of them for me to not be going deeply into debt.
My treatment is going well, I'm about a year out from being considered safe to wean me off the meds, which will take another year.
So I need a year and a half after this kicks in to make it all the way through, financially.
This is a purposeful benefits cliff, and it already was a benefits cliff. It is literally financially unsound for me to work if I will die because I can't afford the medications.
The goal is absolutely to kill people because these people truly believe in Darwinism even if they claim to be religious and reject it. They think only the strong survive and they're just culling the weak who can't hack it in society anyway. They think those people deserve it somehow, not that the system is broken and they simply cannot afford it.
I’m so sorry you’re facing this and I hope you’re able to get through all of this and back to health.
I think it’s less Darwinism and more Just World Fallacy. If you believe in a just world, then it means anyone who’s sick did something to deserve to be sick, so culling them is getting rid of bad people. And sadly, that fits perfectly within religious dogma because if you believe God is almighty and omnipotent, then it’s easy to believe that God would keep good people healthy and only let bad people get sick; or at least if good people are sick it’s “God’s plan.”
The reason naming it is worse than Darwinism because is because the Just World view is logically consistent with their world view, making it even harder to convince them of anything else.
I mean that's fair to say about a lot of christians, but Trump literally learned from his father and family that sickness and frailness is weakness that should be exploited. He took all he learned and exploited his sick father before his death, just like he was taught to. Trump is not some christian, he does not believe in a just world, those who surround him ascribe to the same mafia politics, even if they hide it behind faux-christianity. The people actually running this government and making these decisions aren't actually christians, they don't believe in anything, they're more like Ayn Rand than anyone.
Yeah, fair. Difference in politicians making the policy vs people supporting those politicians. I was thinking about the supporters, but your comment was more about the politicians.
For sure, my focus is on the the people actually crafting the policy. Sure the idiotic christian voters vote these people in, but those idiotic christian voters often actually support things like universal healthcare if you describe it without using the words "universal healthcare." They vote the politicians in for entirely different reasons and then the politicians just do what they were gonna do anyway and screw everyone over while making themselves rich.