Merriam-Webster
defines lockstep as “a mode of marching in step by a body of persons
going one after another as closely as possible.” Wikipedia states lockstep is
often associated with Nazi Germany that made Hitler’s youth groups march in
lockstep.
Merriam-Webster
gives a second definition of lockstep as “a standard method or
procedure that is mindlessly adhered to or that minimizes individuality.” In lockstep is defined as “in perfect
or rigid often mindless or unison – politicians marching in lockstep with
the party line.”
The
Democratic Party is definitely marching in lockstep today. They are negating anything President Donald
Trump and/or the Republican Party propose.
It would not matter if it was the best thing that could ever happen to
this country. Democrats would oppose it.
The lame
stream media is saying President Trump and the Republican Party just had a
defeat because the health care bill did not pass. The Republicans were not in lockstep. Is that good or bad?
That is funny
because it took seventeen months for the lockstep Democrats to pass Obama Care
with no one even reading the bill. It
has proven to be a total disaster. Now, when
Trump does not get a new healthcare bill in seventy days, the media proclaims
it a failure.
If the
Republican Party were in lockstep, they could be in total control and make the
Democrats irrelevant. The down side
would be that it gives too much power to the Republican political elite. I don’t want that and I don’t think President
Trump does either.
Republicans
were divided on the proposed health care legislation, because some, like the
Freedom Caucus, did not think the bill went far enough. Trump and many Republicans ran on the promise
of repealing and replacing Obama Care.
The bill did not do that.
Advocates stated that it was the first of three bills to reform health
care, but there is no guarantee the next two bills will pass.
I don’t
believe the bill actually repealed or replaced Obama Care. It was good it did not pass. Obama Care will implode under its own weight,
and then we can get better health care legislation.
The Democrats
made a huge mistake by not voting for this bill. The bill did not repeal and replace Obama
Care, but was trying to fix it. It was
the best chance and the only option the Democrats had of salvaging anything of
Obama Care. Their foolish lockstep
mentality took that opportunity away from them.
Common sense
is the magic wand. The best solutions
are simple. Even a lowly citizen like me
could write a health care bill that would solve the problems and be less than
ten pages long. I outlined that
legislation in my blog of July 24,
2012 . There are only six
points to the solution. But change is
hard and politics makes it even tougher.
We have to remember the number one objective of most politicians is to
get reelected. The country comes second. This is not the case with our current
president.
God bless the
United States of America . God bless President Trump and guide him to
make America
great again.
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