Reader says I deserved to have my car hit by uninsured motorist because I support Obamacare

I don't know who Tracy is or whether Tracy is a man or a woman, but one thing is for certain- Tracy, a commenter on the Turner Report post about my collision with an apparently uninsured motorist at 7th and St. Louis, feels like I had it coming to me.

Tracy is not saying that because I have damaged people's lives by writing about the crimes they have committed as some readers offered after I was punched by an irate reader at my apartment September 11.

Tracy feels I had it coming because I supported Obamacare and wrote about it.


Here is Tracy's comment:

This may be another form of karma. 

Several years ago, Randy bragged about, and extolled the virtues of, Obama Care, and about how cheap his insurance was. He made no comment about it being taxpayer subsidized. (somebody else paying for his cheaper care) 

With Randy's insurance paying for this claim if he has uninsured motorist coverage, he's subsidizing someone without auto insurance. 

As a liberal, who not only encourages this kind of wealth redistribution, he's also a recipient. Randy shouldn't have written an article complaining about this occurrence. He should be celebrating it!

Apparently, Tracy is unaware that the liberal Obamacare plan was originally created by a conservative think tank and was first employed by the administration of Republican Gov. Mitt Romney in Massachusetts, where it was highly praised.

The plan did not become "liberal" until it could be associated with Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.


I come from a time when people still remembered that it was liberals who were responsible for Social Security, Medicare, civil rights, child labor laws, and so many other things that we take for granted.

In that time, "liberal" was not used as a fallback term by people who were not clever enough to come up with reasonable arguments to back their beliefs.

During that time, politicians of both parties looked for ways to make people's lives better instead of playing on their fears that there are people out there who are getting something they don't deserve (like a higher minimum wage, affordable health care or being treated like human beings).

I can't imagine the kind of thinking that takes a person in that direction. I would not wish for even my worst enemies to be sucker punched or to have their cars hit by uninsured motorists.


I certainly hope making that comment brought a ray of sunshine into Tracy's life.

I suppose I should say I hope Tracy has to experience something like what has happened to me but that is not the way I think.

I guess I am just a soft-hearted liberal.