how come health care reform was called an 'abomination to God'.
The Republican propaganda about healthcare reform spread thick layers of apocalyptic-sounding lies that many, many people in this country swallowed hook, line and sinker. To name just a few:
Death Panels: If the government "controls" healthcare, they'll ration it out to those who are young, healthy and productive. Faceless government bureaucrats will sit on "death panels" that will literally "pull the plug on grandma." BTW: It was Mrs. Palin herself who coined the term "death panels."
Abortion: Good Christians who are morally opposed to abortion will be tyranically forced to fund the slaughter of innocent little fetuses via their tax dollars. The number of abortions will also go up because women will have access to free, unlimited abortions unwillingly paid for by these tormented Christians.
Communism: Obama's ultimate goal is to turn America into a Godless, communist state. Socialized medicine is the first step towards that goal.
And that's just a few. There's also a lot of bizarre mishmash about "freedom" that I barely understand and I've lived here all my life -- something about how if the government covers people's healthcare, then none of us are "free" anymore. It makes no sense at all. The sainted Ronald Reagan was spewing the same bullshit forty years ago when the Republicans were trying to kill Medicare (Medicare is, literally, socialized medicine for senior citizens, which, in forty years, has not yet managed to turn America into a Godless, communist state, like Reagan and others predicted).
Because making sure everyone gets looked after is so evil?
The dark underbelly of the American character is that we don't want everyone to be looked after. There are many people here who think that something like healthcare is a privilege that should only go -- at a high price -- to those worthy enough to earn it. And those who are "unworthy" really don't deserve to live anyway. Fuck 'em.
I often think about how people laughed at Hitler for many years. And then look what happened.
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Date: 2010-03-27 02:23 pm (UTC)The Republican propaganda about healthcare reform spread thick layers of apocalyptic-sounding lies that many, many people in this country swallowed hook, line and sinker. To name just a few:
Death Panels: If the government "controls" healthcare, they'll ration it out to those who are young, healthy and productive. Faceless government bureaucrats will sit on "death panels" that will literally "pull the plug on grandma." BTW: It was Mrs. Palin herself who coined the term "death panels."
Abortion: Good Christians who are morally opposed to abortion will be tyranically forced to fund the slaughter of innocent little fetuses via their tax dollars. The number of abortions will also go up because women will have access to free, unlimited abortions unwillingly paid for by these tormented Christians.
Communism: Obama's ultimate goal is to turn America into a Godless, communist state. Socialized medicine is the first step towards that goal.
And that's just a few. There's also a lot of bizarre mishmash about "freedom" that I barely understand and I've lived here all my life -- something about how if the government covers people's healthcare, then none of us are "free" anymore. It makes no sense at all. The sainted Ronald Reagan was spewing the same bullshit forty years ago when the Republicans were trying to kill Medicare (Medicare is, literally, socialized medicine for senior citizens, which, in forty years, has not yet managed to turn America into a Godless, communist state, like Reagan and others predicted).
Because making sure everyone gets looked after is so evil?
The dark underbelly of the American character is that we don't want everyone to be looked after. There are many people here who think that something like healthcare is a privilege that should only go -- at a high price -- to those worthy enough to earn it. And those who are "unworthy" really don't deserve to live anyway. Fuck 'em.
I often think about how people laughed at Hitler for many years. And then look what happened.