It's near impossible to address the insanity in one dialogue or article that comprehensively tackles the freak show we Americans are privy to right now.
If you talk to one person, he or she will probably get angry that health care is being reformed because he or she thinks a politician will be administering the next physical or surgical operation they need as a result of this health care. And, if you talk to another person, he or she will probably get angry that you aren't happy with where health care ended up (to which I say---for all the death threats and unruly right wing threats calling for violent militant action, it's too damn bad Democrats didn't actually pass something worth dying for).
To borrow Scahill's model for understanding the circus around health reform, there are people in the "blue state" camp who believe that if Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi had witnessed their accomplishment they would have anointed members of Congress true heroes of agendas for social equity in America. And there are people in the "red state" camp who continue to successfully infect the conversation on health care in a manner that antiwar protesters could only dream of.
I and countless others stand trying to balance in the middle. We walk a tightrope where we know right wing threats, GOP/Fox News remarks, and flash mobs are batty, but we aren't satisfied with the health reform at all. In fact, we'd prefer to call it "health insurance enrichment", not health reform.
We saw Dennis Kucinich send out fundraising letters with the DCCC stamp on them and we thought,"Goodbye Dennis. We always knew you were beholden to the Democratic Party leadership and now we know that you will, in the end, always ultimately do the bidding of the wolves in sheep clothing."
We'll balance as long as we can, saying one thing that makes us seem on the side of Democrats and then one thing that makes us seem like we might side with the lizard people who wave teabags in the air for freedom & liberty.
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