You Want It Darker, We Kill the Flame

Paul Ryan is set to deliver for the white middle class in a way the neoliberal Democrat Party never could:

During the campaign, coverage of the issues was blotted out by coverage of Hillary Clinton’s emails and Donald Trump’s broad suite of sociopathic tendencies. And of the issues that did receive any attention, a conspicuously missing one was Paul Ryan’s plan to push Medicare beneficiaries into private health insurance. Reporters just assumed that, since Trump never talked about it, it won’t happen. But Paul Ryan still wants it to happen. And in a Fox News interview with Bret Baier, Ryan said Medicare privatization is on.

“Your solution has always been to put things together, including entitlement reform,” asks Baier, using Republican code for privatizing Medicare. Ryan replies, “If you’re going to repeal and replace Obamacare, you have to address those issues as well. … Medicare has got some serious issues because of Obamacare. So those things are part of our plan to replace Obamacare.”

Fortunately, the Selling Across State Lines, Tort Reform and Vouchers Will Make America’s Health Care Great Again Act of 2017 will have passed after a robust national discussion of Hillary Clinton’s EMAILS! and the RISOTTO John Podesta used to rig the Democratic primaries, so I’d say American democracy is working great.