Poll: With More Than Half the Public Saying They or a Family Member Have Been Covered by Medicaid, Large Majorities Don’t Want Cuts, Including Most Trump Voters and Rural Residents.
Poll: With More Than Half the Public Saying They or a Family Member Have Been Covered by Medicaid, Large Majorities Don’t Want Cuts, Including Most Trump Voters and Rural Residents.
As Congress considers changes to the Medicaid program as part of the budget debate, relatively few (17%) in the public say they want to see a reduction in Medicaid spending, with larger shares saying they want spending to stay about the same (40%) or increase (42%), a new KFF Health Tracking Poll fi...
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Damn, they really should have thought of that, huh
I'm ready for it to get much much worse so i can actually enjoy the stories of people saying they regret their choice. It's not nearly bad enough yet.
It will have to get really bad before people actually say it out loud. There are probably already a significant number of people who are thinking it, but to actually admit they were wrong or shortsighted?
The American conservative machine is built on always doubling down, never admitting you're wrong, never conceding, and never expressing doubts. Admitting you're wrong is "losing." They might vote in accordance with the belief that they were wrong (though more likely they'll just stay home), but they won't say it out loud.
This makes more sense when you look at conservatives as a whole. They're by far the largest consumers of sports, sports betting, and are hyper-competitive - they'll do anything to win.
Just go to any youth sports event and just observe who is doing what. The parents that are doing nothing but positive cheering for their team (and even congratulating the other team on a genuinely good play) look like your stereotypical NPR mom/dad. The ones screaming, coaching from the sidelines, complaining the "ref is fucking us", are all the same stereotypical conservatives sporting a goatee, karen cut, oakleys, and tacticool tshirts promoting warrior mentality.
For them, loss is weakness. Aggression is strength. The only way they'll even come close to admitting they fucked up is couching in a way that lets them save face. They'll blame someone or something else. Never themselves.
You can't lose if you never accept the final score.
By this point, it's clear that it's foolishly optimistic to assume they'll think of it in the next election, either. Fox News will spend the next year bleaching any memory of it from their brains.