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« on: October 26, 2016, 02:54:51 PM » |
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For example, if Trump wins and Obamacare gets repealed or made irrelevant, where do we go on Healthcare after the only deal in town becomes "help people who already can afford it to pay for it" and that the major retort to reform becomes "well, we tried it before. It didn't work"? It just seems it could be decades before another major attempt at healthcare is made again. Further, a center-right to ring-wing SCOTUS majority could make that any new attempts and Healthcare Reform are ruled violations of state rights or contract rights (Substantive Due Process for Republicans). In this barrel of things, I could also add Climate Change because if Trump to totally not enforce any climate change regulation, we could easily see CO2 emissions get past 450 ppms by 2025. At that point, could there be no point but to try to adapt? At any rate, I see Obamacare becoming his ISIS if Immigration becomes his Iraq.
Conversely, if Clinton wins, the only real viable path to allow abortion bans or even many ways to formally condemn it might be abrogated when there could be center-left majority on the Court for years, if not decades. The same with SSM, but it appears that a lot of Republicans have already caved on it or at least make less of a fuss.
Some issues that will be interesting to watch will be marijuana. It will be interesting to see how states and the new president deal with it.
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