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Trump's Horror Show Of Fake Christians

American conservatives are intent on replacing the undeniably flawed ObamaCare with the appallingly ill-conceived  Trumpcare  at the expense of America’s poor, the very people who are meant to be the core concern of their faith.

Twenty- three years since the Clinton’s tried to reform Health care (1993) the wealthiest and most socially advanced society on the planet, brimful with some of the word’s greatest intellects, will have failed to develop a feasible, sustainable provider model that offers an affordable, efficient and sustainable medical coverage for its citizens. 

European citizens in France, England, Spain, Greece and Scandinavia who enjoy the benefits of government-backed health care must look across the water at their American-counterparts with great relief. 

If a world class democracy can be measured by how well it looks after its most vulnerable citizens then it's hard to escape the conclusion that  the ruling American elites display a lack of basic empathy that borders on the sociopathic.

America may continue to refer to itself as a Christian nation, but it is becoming harder and harder to connect this rampantly materialist, celebrity and brand obsessed country to the life and morals of Jesus. What a strange branch of Christianity has flourished in America, where Christians have historically embraced slavery, brutal racial segregation, aggressive suppression of female and gay rights, non-negotiable anti-abortion legislation, and never-ending over seas military efforts, while actively seeking to block any meaningful efforts to support the American middle and underclasses.

Right-wing Christian evangelicals voted overwhelmingly for Trump. Only they can explain how they have come to regard Trump as their chosen exemplar of Christian values.  Their support for Trump and his tragically wayward leadership only serves to offer up more proof of the uncharitable, self-regarding,  ungenerous, arrogant "us" and "them" corruption of Christianity that continues to hold sway in much of the southern antebellum of America.