Monday, June 26, 2017

The Disabled: Scapegoats of the Republican Party



I am with ADAPT in spirit for protesting the cuts to Medicaid and Medicare. If the health care bill is passed the cuts will be so deep, disabled people know our lives and health will be in danger. I probably will lose my main doctor and the office will have to close.

 Many disabled people depend on Medicaid and Medicare to live independent lives in the community via waiver and other programs not to be warehoused in nursing homes.The Republicans are trying to wipe away money for all these programs. The Republican party has promoted hatred of  many groups, but disabled people are chief among them.

 This reminds me of Nazi eugenics, where disabled people were targeted first to be disposed of in that case. Think about how no options are being offered to replace their Medicaid and Medicare cuts, but "go die". I almost did die before I was able to get on Medicare. I remember the years where I could not afford or get medicine or treatment, sure the ER would keep me breathing, if I went into severe acute asthma attacks but once I was "stable" I was dispatched home with nothing more. I suspect even these rules will be changed one day.

I can't tell you how it feels to live in a country, where more and more, you are told that your life is not valued. It creates a dread inside that is hard to fathom. There is more hatred for the disabled now. I feel it among the Republican set the worse too.  One is JUDGED. I and my husband have explored options, it is scary. We have said, ":What will we do if it gets bad enough?" 

I am going to write about how my family has adapted scapegoating Republican attitudes of eugenics towards the disabled and how the ACON life is affected with the double barrels of abuse and disability married together. They told me to my face my life was "less worthy". How do I explain the triggering of PTSD as they work to wipe away programs of decades in age that served as the safety net for so many? By the way I used to have Medicare be the supplemental to being insured under my husband's employment, for YEARS. I didn't need Medicaid back then, but now that the bastards have wiped away all the jobs and employers have cut medical benefits down to nothing, we have the worse politicians at the worse time in history.

One thing I have noticed is there has been a decline in the inclusion of the disabled in society, these hypocrites won't provide jobs or employments with people who have disabilities but are still able to work. The Republicans if anything promote the weed out rules, and the endless oppression. They have nothing to offer us in trade. Do you see any talking about job programs for the disabled who can work? Do you see any talking about housing or other options? Trump by the way has cut housing funding too for a variety of programs, including disabled and elderly housing. We live in private housing for now, but there goes even more options in the future. The death panels are here today, and being run full force by Republicans.

In talking with Republicans, it can be frightening, I unfriended one woman on Facebook, who was big into the "pro-life" movement, That was ironic. She told me my health problems should not be paid for by her, and that my most honorable position would be to go die instead of being a burden on her taxes. She advertised herself as a Uber-Christian, I see her as a Satanist. She had no qualms about more money for war or the endless war on drugs. Talking to these people time and time, they go on about "productive" citizens, and by "productive"they mean employed and making a certain amount of money and volunteer work and other causes don't count. I still remember that ex-project friend and how I unfriended her the day after she shamed me for being disabled, and told me I was a slave to Social Security. She was supported by her parents into her 60s and got free rent. I cut off toxic people who have Republican "go die in the gutter" ethos about life. These types have no mercy, no goodness and the scary thing is how many consider themselves "Christians",

The disabled have become a scapegoat in American society, and I have noticed the target painted on our backs. Ever wonder why the disabled are the focus for so many cuts. Why has Trump and his men gunned for us first?  When a society goes fascist and loses honor and goodness, they no longer care about the most vulnerable in society, and that is who it starts with. Sociopaths go for the easy targets. It started in Nazi Germany too. We know Trump has other scapegoat groups he has gotten the peasants to rally against. First they came for the disabled. I feel terrified for the wheelchair bound and the disabled who cannot speak up for themselves, this is a cold society and growing worse. Nazi Fascist America, where sociopathy equals "strength". Notice how the politicians did not try to talk to these people or compromise or offer discussion, they just had their hired jack-booted thugs, drag them away in the worse way possible, even removing many from their wheelchairs and mobility equipment.

The disabled have no other choice but civil disobedience, especially if our lives are on the line. I fully support ADAPT's protest. I am protesting myself too as much as my health will allow.

13 comments:

  1. Being "pro life" and thinking Social Darwinism is a good thing are such divergent opinions that I've never understood how people can believe that way without their heads exploding.

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    1. It scares me and sad to say in the IFB which I left there was many people like that. I don't know how their heads didn't explode either, most supported the death penalty too. I know there are moderate Republicans and people who don't fit these criteria but I think I live around a lot of the other kind, I really do.

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  2. These Republicans are malignant narcs who need to be exposed for what they are so that we will stop meeting their narc supplies. They love attention, our comments, and the feelings of having the ultimate power over Americans who could not make the decision because of broken legal system and constitutional laws. They get jollies when they see disadvantaged people like those who disabilities; who are non-white people, poor, unmarried women who want marriage and family, and unemployed protesting against their death sentences.

    When adults with disability took the time to do a sit-in as described in the news, they felt Mitch McConnell gave them a death penalty. They did not want to die, so they protested. McConnell chose not to talk to them, so he called the police. Any Republicans who support these types of policies that hurt innocent people President Reagan did not target in the 1980s are malignant narcs.

    Here is an article I thought you would like to read: http://www.salon.com/2017/03/23/why-are-republicans-so-cruel-to-the-poor-paul-ryans-profound-hypocrisy-stands-for-a-deeper-problem/

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    1. I agree many of those Republican leaders are malignant narcissists and sociopaths. America has gone to a new very terrible place where open disdain for the less fortunate has now been made policy among wealthy leaders. They want to be deemed superior while practicing eugenics on various segments of the population. This has been done through the back door while destroying many people's economic futures but now while they work to take medical care away and strip away the social safety net, that is moving this country into a very bad place. I believe they love their feelings of power, and they do profit off all the suffering,paid off by corporations behind the scenes who probably financed their campaigns. Led by the luciferian religious right and others, they love the feeling of power and destruction over millions of lives. Paul Ryan and crew in other words ENJOY what they DO.

      The adults with disability know their very lives are at stake. Many will be warehoused back into horrible institutions and have aides, medical care and waiver programs taken away from them. I can see one medical program for the fragile disabled taken away I planned to enter to keep me out of nursing home care, and there will be no help at home offered. Yes Mitch McConnell definitely hates the disabled and cares nothing for their needs, even 30 years ago, a politician treating vulnerable disabled people like this would be chastised, today it is business as usual. Many on the right have been trained to disregard and hate the poor, the disabled and to scapegoat various segments of the population. These brainwashed types have been taught to worship the uber men of Nietzche and Ayn Rand, who proclaim their superiority to the masses and who claim inferiority for many groups they have scapegoated. The disabled are chief among them.

      That's a good article too, well as you know being in IFB churches I saw the rhetoric being whipped up among the poor among the religious right and it started years ago and has reached a zenith.

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  3. "She told me my health problems should not be paid for by her, and that my most honorable position would be to go die instead of being a burden on her taxes." This makes me so angry. Partly because it's just so black hearted, but also because it's like the actual social expression of being raised by narcissists like our parents: what matters is me and my money, you don't matter at all. I'm really sorry for all the crap you've been told over the years because of your disability too, not surprised, but sorry. I'm not white and I was raised in an all white town in the 60s and the kind of crap I had to hear always shocks the white people I know. If you don't have something that causes people to call you out then you have no idea how much ugliness is shown to people every day. Every day I've been reading hoping to hear that the Senate will kill this health bill. It is an evil, cruel bill. It was unbelievable seeing people dragged out of their wheelchairs!

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    1. It was very triggering, remember I had the false friend who the day before I ended the friendship, she told me my weight and Aspergers embarrassed her, and that I should just go die in the gutter instead of being a slave to Social Security. She was always making comments about government mooches and giving me pie in the sky comments, you could sell your art work...[hey it makes pin money at times, but paying for thousands in medication, I wanted to ask her if she was insane?]

      I am suffering from self esteem issues from the disabilities, as I have gotten older they have gotten tougher to cope with, and I do feel even the subtle stuff has taken a toll on me especially in an affluent area. I got a leg infection this week, and feel more of the blame and worse. Yes they tell us what matters is only money and we do not matter.

      Sorry you hear such horrible stuff living in an all white town being non-white. I don't want to know what that would be like. Where I live now is a very racist area, very segregated especially for a state that is not in the South, I do get the feeling that this may infuse on multiple levels and affect other groups like the disabled, etc. Classism, racism, and other isms like Ableism can marry into a very toxic stew.

      I was horrified that people being dragged out of wheelchairs is now acceptable. I hope they do kill this health bill. It is evil and cruel. I do feel I have dealt with some triggering and health stress, from the political climate. It is growing so bad and is a picture of the soul of who has been put in charge.

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  4. I've noticed that if you aren't obviously compromised it doesn't register with people that can still work. On a bad day I can hardly stand up long enough to shave with out getting dizzy. Much less go out and work like I used to. The people at SSDI have always been kind and easy to work with. One time I made an off hand remark about it being tantamount to welfare and the guy on the phone was quick to remind me that this was money I had paid in during the course of my life and to never think of it as a hand out. Most think if you can tape a yard stick your head and tap out e-mails you should be able to work construction.

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    1. I am glad the people at SSDI, are kind and easy to work with, yeah that guy is right it is money you paid in during your life, and was meant to be used. The Republicans have unleashed these sickening lies about Social Security. I am on SSD, the one you pay into, maybe I got disabled younger, but that is part of the system. I am visibly disabled and I get the feeling some think I should take the walker and put trays on it and be a waitress or something.

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  5. https://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/6/27/15876442/healthcare-medicaid-cuts-disability-protests

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  6. The die-in was brave and painful to watch. We know what happened when benefits were cut for the disabled in the UK, thousands died in the following years, probably most were preventable deaths. But you're right, that's not an unfortunate liability, that is the point. It's extremely grotesque and I think many ppl balk at this reality. Even if they are concerned with preserving social safety nets, we don't hear about the real alternative of their removal (go die). It gets neatly left unsaid but I've been saying it a lot with increasing alarm as I saw the UK activists struggle against cuts, that came and destroyed thousands of lives. I think my family thinks I'm unhinged because I am not, technically, disabled. Why do you care so much? Well I have Lipedema and I fear disability in the not so far future. But I also know when we start saying that one person's life costs too much, it's the end of humanity, anyone living peacefully can become to costly to allow to live

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    1. I think it was brave too. Did any of you see the article about the people locked in a room who were protesting? That was so wrong, they were not disabled in that case, but I could see it happening. I belong to some FB UK disability boards, and what has happened there is horrific beyond words and yes people have lost housing and their lives. When they went on the austerity plan the disabled were kicked first to the curb like the Republican party wants to do to us. I think it is the point, they do want us to die and "stop costing money". This is a bitter pill for someone like me who wonders if I would have escaped disability with the right treatment at the right time. When I talk to Republicans who are gung ho, I have directly asked "well what should people like me go and then do?" and "go die" or silence is the basic response. I am glad you care, it proves you have a conscience. Most people if they grow old enough aka stay alive will end up with at least one disability before they die. I hope you can avoid disability too. I believe it is the end of humanity as well and a victory for "those who have waxed cold" and the narcissists and sociopaths out there.

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  7. https://jaldenh.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/vanity-fair-trial-of-the-will-by-christopher-hitchens/

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    1. good article. I always hated that saying. It doesn't make you stronger. Some try to glamorize poverty and other states in Christian circles. When everything is supposed to be a "lesson" there's a point where you want to punch the "teacher" out, so I don't buy those theological musings or the ones where they say that everything is part of the plan. It's strange that place of illness where you could find yourself willing to slip away just to even escape the pain, with multiple body systems collapsing one by one. I experienced it with severe kidney stones--dozens coming out at a time by the way not just "one" and during the infection of 2001, where I almost lost my life and every infection triggers me back there. With those who are severely ill, many tire of the platitudes. I always liked Christopher Hitchens, he is kind of one of my secrets, that I liked reading his writings. I didn't announce this to my IFB church members of course. LOL

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