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A friendly reminder to both sides that whatever the current administration does, the next can undo.

This is especially important when the majority party decides to give itself more power and inadvertently gives their successors more than they intended.

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This is not true. Rolling back regulations on green house gas emissions, removing regulations on clean water, denying healthcare to millions of people... Those deaths cannot be undone, the aquifers cannot be cleaned, and the carbon can't be removed from the atmosphere.

I was not necessarily speaking as to the effects of their policies, but rather their attempts to expand their own power even if that gives their opponents more power next cycle.

It is a shame about the environmental repercussions though.

I have this weird dream, and I am well aware it will never come true, that people will learn how to aim their political anger correctly. There's enough of a problem to be solved and we don't need people muddying up the view of it with rampant misunderstandings based on emotion.

Let's tone down the hyperbole.

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I don't like having a political argument in this forum. I don't want hn to turn into r/politics.

I'm not swayed by emotional pleas from celebrities or others crying about a bill they haven't read. Who are these folks dying by the millions? From what I see mortality rates rose since obamacare came about:

"We know that the same year Obamacare’s insurance expansion provisions took effect, there was a pronounced, and statistically significant, surge in U.S. adult mortality."

http://thefederalist.com/2017/04/25/running-numbers-mortalit...

So you can get some facts together or continue crying. Your choice.

You have an ability to raise the dead no one else knows about?

Or technology to scrub co2 from the air?

It's that sort of attitude that really hurts people. My children those that suffered because of attitudes like that. This affects people's lives. It's not hyperbole. It's real.

Do you have health insurance? Have you rejected it because it increases your chance of mortality? Would you refuse health coverage for your children because it would increase their mortality rate?

Your assertion is as callous as it is absurd.

Nobody wrote "millions of deaths". What was said was that millions would be denied coverage, which would result in deaths.

The republicans have Gerrymandered themselves into every seat in almost every non-coastal state.

We're about to find out in the coming years how much republicans own this country.

Or perhaps the country was not as progressive as we all thought and this is our wake up call.

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