CURTIS, Nebraska - The only health clinic here is shutting down, and the hospital CEO has blamed Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump’s signature legislation. But residents of Curtis - a one-stoplight town in deep-red farm country - aren’t buying that explanation.
“Anyone who’s saying that Medicaid cuts is why they’re closing is a liar,” April Roberts said, as she oversaw lunch at the Curtis Area Senior Center.
I’m over here in a corner wondering just how hard our ruling parties have to fail before the cultish devotion goes away.
Cults go down with their leaders… Not their devotion.
But Kemp, a lifelong Republican and Trump supporter, doesn’t hold that against Trump and suggested he might change course. “I really think he’s gonna do something,” she said.
It’s this kind of thinking I find staggering. Trump has done something - it’s his bill that caused the problem he’s not going to change course. I don’t understand why Trump voters want to judge Trump on his words rather than his actions. They’re amongst those who are going to suffer to preserve tax cuts that won’t benefit them.
I think if they had good judgement, they wouldn’t be trump voters.
Additionally many of them have a “take it on faith” behavior, because that’s been drilled into them by their churches and communities for decades. Thinking critically would have been punished. It’s hard behavior to unlearn. People were denying covid with their death rattles from covid.
They’re taught to blindly put their faith into a higher power, and good things will come to them if they do.
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