The first year of the “Affordable” care act, we paid $1,980

with an income near the poverty line? How is that even possible? Two grand a month for a family of 3 is above the poverty line. That meant you were paying more in premiums than you bring in. Before I decide we’re drifting back into hogwash territory, I need some more detail.

vaulted government system we are compelled to use simply disqualified my family

There is no “government system” your insurance company did that. If you are trying to hassle the insurance company into taking you back it’s not going to happen because … see below

Our adjusted gross income last year was under poverty level

which means you no longer qualify for subsidies. You qualify for Medicaid which is paid 100%. I think you should stop trying to get back what you had and go here: https://www.coveredca.com/

It’s kind of funny that you can tell me this:

I can’t afford my prescriptions, my wife is still in recovery from uterine cancer, we are raising a 10-year old granddaughter.

and then a couple of lines later tell me this:

One point in all of this is that government has no place dictating anything about my health coverage but it is stuffed down my throat

It sounds like they are stuffing something down your throat that you desperately need. That’s no knock against you. Imagine uterine cancer WITHOUT health coverage.

To say a border does nothing for security belies your naïveté.

Sorry it does very little. A wall would be massively expensive, hugely disruptive and do nothing. Republican politicians are probably not racist themselves, at least not overtly. It’s something they use to keep people like you distracted. The wall is pure symbolism. It is intended to distract you from the fact that Trump and Co. are going to pick your pocket. There was never going to be a wall.

I believe the overwhelming number of people are good-hearted, not the “vile” “jerks” you cite.

the vile jerks I cite are a few hundred hugely wealthy politicians (they look down on the ragged people who have to struggle to make ends meet with a mere $450,000 per year). My whole point in my original screed (note the word “polemicist” in my bio) was that those rich men are looking out only for themselves and don’t mind hurting millions of people just so they can be a little richer. They don’t mind hurting you. That is what I think is vile.

And although I’m pretty hard on the people you view as part of your Tribe, I have not called you names either. I’m pretty tame one-on-one. I drop into evil polemicist mode when I’m fired up.

You should have read all of the original article. I think you would have found some stuff there to like. I had heard that nobody knows what Democrats stand for and that made me mad and I wrote a rebuttal.

Consider giving yourself a break and concentrate only on what you can personally change: yourself.

This stung a bit :-). I’m a life coach and mostly blog on personal development/self improvement. I’m a top writer in inspiration and psychology. I just interrupt my “here is how you live a better life” posts with the occasional political rant. Sigh. People are complicated.