Confessions of a hypocritical sinner and confused soul regarding Trump, GOPcare and dodged bullets

Free Republic stands for God, family, country. We generally look to Judeo-Christian* guidance on issues of law, morality, justice, freedom, life, family and civil society. And we have a Christian self-governing, self-reliant, individual accountability & responsibility, you gotta work if able-bodied and want to eat attitude on cultural and societal issues. And a Christian pro-Constitution, original intent, pro-liberty, pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, restricted government, small government, states rights, individual rights, free enterprise position on political and civil matters.

*Note: I say Judeo-Christian because Jesus was a Jew and referred to the Ten Commandments, Jewish law, beliefs and customs and the scripture he quoted was from the Torah, ie, the Hebrew Bible and basically today's Old Testament. If you believe in the Bible (Old and New Testaments) and the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, etc, then you believe in our one true Judeo-Christian God.

We take the Bible, the Declaration, the Constitution and our Christian founding and heritage seriously, though we are sometimes backsliders. We the people formed our original Christian states (and they were indeed Christian as the original constitutions of all 13 states openly declared it so), and after the revolution we the people of the original Christian states established and ratified the Constitution and formed the new national government.

We the people of the original states through our ratifying representatives agreed to delegate certain enumerated powers to the new national government and limit it to just those delegated and enumerated powers, reserving all others to our existing Christian state and local governments and to we the people.

We the people of the original Christian states also included a Bill of Rights that prohibited our newly established limited national government from interfering into our God-given (per the Declaration and common understanding) inalienable rights to free speech, freedom of religion, right to keep and bear arms, right to speedy trial before our peers, etc, etc. We had just rebelled against a tyrannical king and there was no way we were going to sign on to or allow a newly formed central government to rule over us or interfere into our currently long established Christian governments and communities, or deny us our God-given rights or take our guns or lock us up on some trumped up federal charge, etc.

The God-given right to our individual freedoms (including the right to freely exercise our Christian religion) and to self-government was of paramount concern to the founders and to we the people and to our original states. We had no intent of signing away our rights to community and even state level Christian governments. The Constitution and Bill of Rights was intended to keep the newly established federal government OUT of our state and local and individual matters! It restricted the federal government not the states, ie, a community or even a state recognizing God as our Creator and source of all rights, and or communities celebrating Christmas or Easter is NOT a violation of the first amendment, nor is prayer offered from a public space.

The above is my understanding and is critical to the positions I take today. If I am proved wrong about any of the above then I may need to rethink my personal philosophy in regards to God, Christianity and the Constitution.

I supported Cruz before and at the start of the primaries due to his obvious Christian constitutional conservative positions and track record of defending the Constitution. IMHO, he stood head and shoulders over Bush, Rubio, Kascich, Paul and other assorted GOPe RINOs, globalists, amnesty pushers, establishment hangers on and unknown newbies, etc. I didn't care much at all for Trump. Thought he was an untrustworthy chameleon and charlatan. Wrote him off completely.

And then I began watching his rallies and listening to him explain his positions. Build the wall, enforce the law, deport them all, end sanctuary cities, end anchor babies, slap a moratorium on Muslim immigration, cut taxes, cut spending, cut regulations, cut the government, make better trade deals, bring back manufacturing and jobs, dump the EPA and global warming, bring back coal, gas & oil, rebuild the military AND (as all the other Republican hopefuls pledged: REPEAL OBAMACARE!

Ok, so I'm impressed. The guy sounds like a Reagan conservative. But I'm still a Cruz guy. As I continue watching and listening to both and then start reading Trump's plans as he fleshes them out on his website, I get even more interested. His initial tax plan even out Reagan'd Reagan. He proposed cutting all taxes, but especially cutting the corporate tax to ZERO! Now that piqued my interest way up! What a boost to the economy and jobs that would be (unfortunately, cutting the corp tax rate to zero was later in the primary modified to 15%, I suspect after GOP bean counters got involved).

So now I have two favorites in the race. Cruz was my guy but I could be happy with Trump. If either of these guys won the primary, I'd back him to the hilt. Even thought it'd be great if they partnered up on the ticket.

And as the race progressed, it was impossible not to see that Trump was not only a great campaigner, and a great communicator, but he was also a great fighter and wasn't going to rollover for the establishment or the media. He takes his message straight to the people and does not apologize or back down.

One by one he knocks off anyone who attacks him, whether they be an opponent, a pundit, the GOP, the DEMs, the establishment or the media. We can't spare this man, he fights.

So it eventually gets down to Trump vs Cruz, but Trump is way ahead. Cruz has been holding off to this point, but now he has no choice. If he wants to win, Cruz has to take Trump head-on and the nasty battle begins. Again, Trump is the more aggressive campaigner and fighter and he pulls it out.

And the most aggressive campaigner and fighter is exactly what we needed to defeat Hillary and the democrats and the media AND the entire establishment ruling class of both major political parties.

His own party stood against him! Even FOX News and most of the so-called "conservative" media!

It was a miracle that Trump won. "He had no path to 270!" No one thought he could possibly make it. Coming down to the wire I think even Trump thought he'd lost. And then as the last handful of states were coming in, the network vote counters all agreed Trump had no path to a win. Then boom. Don't remember if it was Michigan or Wisconsin, but after Trump won whichever came in first, there was a long pregnant pause as the Network vote counters tried and tried, but couldn't calculate any clear path to 270 from the remaining states... for Hillary!

And now at the risk of offending many of our dear readers and participants, I say yesterday we dodged another bullet.

We already know that the Democrat party absolutely hates our Christian founding & heritage and our Constitution and our constitutionally guaranteed God-given individual and states rights. And that they prefer a "living constitution" and an all powerful centralized Godless Marxist government with a globalized bent and a Godless Marxist judiciary unconstitutionally implementing their Godless Marxist agenda. This is a given and we also know this philosophy is infiltrating and making strong headway into our Republican party and establishment.

We all know that Obamacare is an unconstitutional, unsustainable socialist program rammed through our congress via questionable and unscrupulous processes without a single Republican vote and upheld by the opinion of an errant court doing the bidding of the aforementioned Godless Marxist government.

Primarily because the power to legislate health care matters and or mandates on insurance matters to our states and or on we the people is NOT a power enumerated and delegated to the congress or the federal government by the Constitution and is therefore reserved to the states and the people.

If I am right then a health care or insurance law enacted by a Republican congress or government would be equally unconstitutional, regardless of whether it is better or worse than Obamacare.

If we God-fearing defenders of Constitution and Liberty join in with those who would knowingly pass unconstitutional laws for political expedience, ie, helping Trump move his agenda which is otherwise very good, then we've unwittingly shot ourselves in the foot and opened the doors to both political parties to destroy whatever is left of our Constitution and our Liberty. And they will do it if given the opportunity.

So we shot our toe off and delivered a defeat of his first legislative agenda item.

A lost toe to preserve foot and limb (or life and liberty, in this case) is much preferable to the alternative (don't ask me how I know).

If I'm confused or all wet on these matters I'm sure you will straighten me out.

(And yes, I know Trump's position evolved from repeal to repeal and replace during the primary. I supported him anyway because of the rest of his platform. I assumed cooler heads and the constitution would win out on the replace bit.)

Now we need to move on to REPEAL (along with the rest of his agenda)! Rules changes or whatever it takes, we must repeal Obamacare.

First, glad you de-cloaked and posted. It gives me comfort knowing that there are more like you (and I...) who still read FR even though they may not post. The first purpose of my post was simply to commend Jim for what I personally found to be a well thought out, reasoned and impassioned expression of the frustration many feel. I have no doubt that Jim not only spoke for me, he spoke for many, many others.

The second purpose of my post was to point out the damage Blowbamacare is doing to health care in this country, and to people like Jim and I.

While my condition is nowhere near Jim's, I've been doing downhill for quite awhile and I'm likely going to be determined to be disabled in the next year.

Those who are healthy (now ....) are likely not going to feel the effects of Blowbamacare and the GOP's failed effort under Lyin' Paul Ryan other than in their wallet and/or payroll deductions for their employer sponsored healthcare. Even then, some may not notice it because they don't need their healthcare, don't use it, and don't (yet) realize what's happened to their coverage. So many are paying so much more, for much less coverage and don't know it yet.

I know it, because I rely on, and need that coverage. Well, I can't rely on it anymore. If I had my way, I'd stop paying for my healthcare coverage and get back the $450/month that I pay and use it to pay for the costs my insurance DOES NOT pay for because I haven't met an excessive deductible.

Financially, I'm so much worse off now than I was a year ago thanks to the Blowbamacare regulations that have kicked in and impacted those of us on private healthcare insurance.

So in sharing my story, I'm simply trying to expose what's really happening in the private sector and how the failure to repeal Blowbamacare isn't just hurting those who are on it, it's hurting those of us with employer sponsored healthcare also.

It's no coincidence, it's by design. All to collapse the healthcare system both public and private and force us into single payer where people like Jim and I will be pushed off into a corner, ignored, and left to die.

Yes, I said it: left to die.

Those of us who are chronically ill through no fault of our own, have special needs or have special needs children and more have been "marked for death" in my opinion.

Eugenics, anyone? Yes, it's happening. Death Panels by any other name are still Death Panels and they do in fact exist. Those of us who are being denied coverage THAT WE PAY FOR and are increasingly being told that our insurance plan no longer covers our medications and we're on our own to figure out how to get them know it.

Those Death Panels are much more obtuse and difficult to see than Sarah Palin once described, but they're there nonetheless. They exist in Corporate Benefit Administration departments and Health Care "Consulting" and "Wellness" programs. They exist in the Federal Government writing cryptic regulations that mean whatever some federal bureaucrat wants them to mean. They work together to "cut costs" by cutting care to those who are chronically ill, have genetic related diseases through no fault of their own and any other class of individuals that requires more healthcare "than the norm." Yes, "norms" have been established and if you're outside the "norms" you're on your own. Didn't used to be that way, it is now.

So while I wait to die I'm going to yell, scream and tell the truth about what's happening from the mountaintop in the loudest voice I have.

Thank you Jim for providing the platform for me to do so, and thanks DoodleBob for decloaking. Hope to see you around here more.

(Adding my good friend Laz to this post since he knows me, knows what I'm dealing with, as personally met me and will tell anyone who calls me a liar that I'm telling the truth.)

Thank you, USC. I must say, I am honored that you looped in Laz...he is one of my favorite writers, from the Obama countdown, to the "I'd hit it" threads, to his touching tribute to his cat.

It is worth reminding every citizen that Obamacare was, inter alia, a soft eugenics plan. Of course, they didn't SAY that outright. No smart villain ever fully reveals his plan. But from Ezekiel J Emanuel's ghastly "complete lives system" of starving people of healthcare, to Jonathan Gruber's cheery two-thumbs up for the "sizable positive selection" impact of abortion, to the real-world rationing we're witnessing today, little by little Sarah Palin is being vindicated.

In a twisted sort of way, the rise of the statists since Trump's election has had a positive impact on the removal of masks. In Dr. Peter Hammond's insightful essay at FrontPageMagazine.com in 2008, he correlates the rise of militancy and brutality as a subsect of society becomes a majority. We are seeing this very process unfold before our eyes, as the aircover of "caring for the little people" under which the statists operated for decades when they were a vocal few, is happily discarded for their truth of hatred, racism, and megalomania in their "majority" status. They feel there is finally safety in numbers.

Unfortunately for them, you can't put the genie back in that bottle and all those histrionics are not an increase in headcount. The majority of Americans remain in favor of free enterprise, the rule of law, family, charity, and love for your fellow man and equality rooted in God. Once THAT majority, which has been awakened by Trump's win, finds its heretofore dormant voice, I am hopeful that not only will the unforced errors about which Jim wrote and USC echoed become minimized, but we can get back to the business at hand of MAGA.

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