Raser’s Edge:  Compassionate Conservative?

Do you remember the term “Compassionate Conservatism “?  That is what is known as an “oxymoron.”   A lot of Trump’s “base” supporters will think an oxymoron is a cleaning compound used by dumb people as advertised on tv so I had better explain it.  An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in combination.    “Compassionate conservatism” is a perfect example of an oxymoron when you apply it to the current Trump Republican Party.   If you are compassionate, you can’t be a conservative and if you are a conservative you are not compassionate.

Moron Don just issued an executive order (remember those things he vilified Obama for issuing) rescinding grants to states to help poor people obtains health care insurance.  So, it appears that Moron Don thinks it’s “compassionate” to cut off an estimated 6,000,000 low income people from health care insurance.  We all know that the real motivation is to destroy Obamacare (the ACA) because the inherently racist Trump Republican Faction wants to destroy everything and anything accomplished by a black president.

    

Our “compassionate Republicans” in Congress also cut off funding the CHIP (Childrens Health Insurance Program).  That probably appeals to Moron Don’s base who would rather spend money on a stupid wall to “keep out them Mexicans” than on children’s’ health care.  Trump’s Republicans also oppose providing school food programs for low income children, you know, “those” people which is the Republican code word for “black.”

Moron Don is also pushing rescinding DACA, the program that allows young immigrants brought here by their parents as children to remain in America.  Would that be “compassionate?”  These young people themselves have really done nothing wrong and nearly all are productive, law-abiding people(but you know, America’ self-righteous Christian hypocrites believe in visiting the sins of the fathers on the sons—and daughters), however, conservative Republicans want to kick them out.

If you think conservative Republicans are “compassionate” then perhaps I can I interest you in buying a laundry detergent called “Oxy-Moron”?