Well, I'm thinking you know me well enough to knowwhat side of the ridiculous, wanktastic 'debate' I'm on overe here. I thought once we got Bush II out of the White House we could actualy begin to hold our heads up again instead of cowering in shame.
Now the shame comes from realizing that there is a certain bloc withing our country that is filled with wilfully ignorant racist jerk-offs who would rather believe that there could actually be something called a Death Panel and forced euthanasia not because there is anything like a basis in facts but because they cannot and will not accept that the LEGALLY ELECTED BY A PRETTY DAMN NICE MARGIN President in office that happens to have brown skin, OMG.
The same asshats that thought Bush II did a bang up job are the ones that are running around now howling about all manner of nonsense. Have they read the bill in question? I'm thinking not. Do they understand what a Public Option is? Do they have any inkling of how Britain's NHS is run? Hell, half of them can't name the three branches of government in their own country or locate the countries they are so proud we are at war with on a map.
The same people that are being hereded around like cattle by the patriotic sounding "Freedom Way" (The so-called Grass Roots Movement organization) don't have any idea that that organization is fully funded, backed and rhetoric-fueled by several insurance and pharmaceutical companies. The protesers (more like the crazed mobs, really) are very likely to be in the lower income brackets and many of them do not have health insurance or they depend upon the government funded social program known as Medicare. THey don't know that Medicare is a SOCIALIZED MEDICINE PROGRAM. The big picture is lost upon them because all they know is that there is a black man in the White House and the fear and hatred centered on that one fact is used by the afore mentioned insurance & pharma companies and their polial shills in Congress to keep them in a frothing rage.
The health care bill that's laid out so far has a lot of holes in it. There are things in it that I don't much agree with as well as elements that seem sound and useful. If the elected officials would actually sit down and work for the people that elected them, maybe some of the bigger wrinkles could be ironed out. Instead there is greedy in-fighting (both sides of the aisle) and the digging in of the heels (mostly republicans who will never in a million years vote for anyhting that might make Obama look good in any shape manner or form).
I'm sorry to have jumped in on your rant with yet another of my own.Your points are well said and informative; I understand and agree with you, but I think you know that.
I don't know if anyone outside looking in understands just how goddamn frustrating and bewildering it is to see 20% of ones own country go completely barking mad. Frankly, it's sort of terrifying.
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Now the shame comes from realizing that there is a certain bloc withing our country that is filled with wilfully ignorant racist jerk-offs who would rather believe that there could actually be something called a Death Panel and forced euthanasia not because there is anything like a basis in facts but because they cannot and will not accept that the LEGALLY ELECTED BY A PRETTY DAMN NICE MARGIN President in office that happens to have brown skin, OMG.
The same asshats that thought Bush II did a bang up job are the ones that are running around now howling about all manner of nonsense. Have they read the bill in question? I'm thinking not. Do they understand what a Public Option is? Do they have any inkling of how Britain's NHS is run? Hell, half of them can't name the three branches of government in their own country or locate the countries they are so proud we are at war with on a map.
The same people that are being hereded around like cattle by the patriotic sounding "Freedom Way" (The so-called Grass Roots Movement organization) don't have any idea that that organization is fully funded, backed and rhetoric-fueled by several insurance and pharmaceutical companies. The protesers (more like the crazed mobs, really) are very likely to be in the lower income brackets and many of them do not have health insurance or they depend upon the government funded social program known as Medicare. THey don't know that Medicare is a SOCIALIZED MEDICINE PROGRAM. The big picture is lost upon them because all they know is that there is a black man in the White House and the fear and hatred centered on that one fact is used by the afore mentioned insurance & pharma companies and their polial shills in Congress to keep them in a frothing rage.
The health care bill that's laid out so far has a lot of holes in it. There are things in it that I don't much agree with as well as elements that seem sound and useful. If the elected officials would actually sit down and work for the people that elected them, maybe some of the bigger wrinkles could be ironed out. Instead there is greedy in-fighting (both sides of the aisle) and the digging in of the heels (mostly republicans who will never in a million years vote for anyhting that might make Obama look good in any shape manner or form).
I'm sorry to have jumped in on your rant with yet another of my own.Your points are well said and informative; I understand and agree with you, but I think you know that.
I don't know if anyone outside looking in understands just how goddamn frustrating and bewildering it is to see 20% of ones own country go completely barking mad. Frankly, it's sort of terrifying.
*sigh*