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A whole lot is wrong. I was born here and love the country, but increasingly fear for my safety and well-being: our employer pays nearly $20,000 per year for NH

A whole lot is wrong. I was born here and love the country, but increasingly fear for my safety and well-being: our employer pays nearly $20,000 per year for NHS-equivalent health insurance (two adults, no children), basic prescriptions cause multi-month fights due to claim denials on drugs my doctor instructed me to take, patent trolling is endemic and a real threat to small bootstrapped companies, a pathological liar is one step away from the White House and lending legitimacy to anti-first-amendment and white supremacist groups, literal highway robbery is real, and as best as I can tell money has come to be held above life itself. I'm profoundly disillusioned, and not sure where to go from here.

CWuestefeld 10y ago
I hate to delve into the politics, but... a pathological liar is one step away from the White House and lending legitimacy to anti-first-amendment ... groups These complaints actually describe both major-party candidates pretty well.
tajen 10y ago
You forgot: the TSA, the "warning shots in the chest" (it's a meme), the 6% of black people currently in prison, the 1% of all population currently in prison, the freedom you export (another meme - yes I'm talking about the drone-based assinations outsourced to private companies), and the NSA patently ignoring any interpretation-by-a-reasonable-man of the constitution. But it really cheers my heart that there are so many people gathered on HN who see through the problems. Trump is only the natural leader to this army of thugs, exactly like in 1934 in Germany. Let's hope that if your country falls into that trap, there will be an even bigger country to come and save you, like you did for us in 1944.
- tremon 10y ago
  Let's hope that if your country falls into that trap, there will be an even bigger country to come and save you, like you did for us in 1944. That would be Russia, China, or Canada.
  - Spoom 10y ago
    Historically, Canada has always been a release valve of sorts for abuses of the US. Just look at the Vietnam war or (in a much larger sense) the underground railroad.
tremon 10y ago
not sure where to go from here. North?

CWuestefeld 10y ago

I hate to delve into the politics, but... a pathological liar is one step away from the White House and lending legitimacy to anti-first-amendment ... groups These complaints actually describe both major-party candidates pretty well.

tajen 10y ago

You forgot: the TSA, the "warning shots in the chest" (it's a meme), the 6% of black people currently in prison, the 1% of all population currently in prison, the freedom you export (another meme - yes I'm talking about the drone-based assinations outsourced to private companies), and the NSA patently ignoring any interpretation-by-a-reasonable-man of the constitution. But it really cheers my heart that there are so many people gathered on HN who see through the problems. Trump is only the natural leader to this army of thugs, exactly like in 1934 in Germany. Let's hope that if your country falls into that trap, there will be an even bigger country to come and save you, like you did for us in 1944.

tremon 10y ago
Let's hope that if your country falls into that trap, there will be an even bigger country to come and save you, like you did for us in 1944. That would be Russia, China, or Canada.
- Spoom 10y ago
  Historically, Canada has always been a release valve of sorts for abuses of the US. Just look at the Vietnam war or (in a much larger sense) the underground railroad.

tremon 10y ago

not sure where to go from here. North?