text: I'm Stella's age.  I remember being able to afford a health insurance policy and a country that led the world in scientific discovery.  During the last three decades, private health insurance became outrageously unaffordable, a big chunk of our population lost it's critical thinking skills and now it's an actual "thing" to not believe in science.  I blame the Republican Party.  They cozied up to the crazy evangelicals, and the idiocy became contagious.  I left the Republicans about 25 years ago, and have watched in dismay as they have sunk deeper and deeper into the abyss.  Hatred and division under Obama?  Yes, sadly it turns out that the racism never completely went away, and a lot of white people just could not handle having a black man as their president.  And the people who voted for Trump feeling a bit forgotten?  I wonder how forgotten they'll feel after he continues the Republican assault against the middle class in favor of the ridiculously wealthy.