August 8th, 2009
The lies of the Right Wing Nut Job Extremists are starting to get to me. That and the stupidity and gullibility of the Right Wing Nut Job Extremists.
First off, let’s define “Fascism.” According to merriam-webster.com, it is “a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.”
In other words, fascism perfectly describes what the Right Wing and George Bush tried to do to this country during their 8 years in power –
- A phony war to drum up nationalistic fervor.
- Suppression of the Bill of Rights and individual liberties. At the low end during the Bush administration, the Republican Party cherry picked audiences at town halls and forced dissenters off camera and out of range. At the high end, it was spying on all of our emails and phone calls, imprisoning citizens and others without charges, and torture.
- Autocratic government with power being concentrated in the executive branch. Bush’s signing statements made legislation moot. Warrantless wiretapping ignored the rule of law. They corrupted the Department of Justice.
- Severe economic and social regimentation. The Right Wing promotes the concentration of wealth among the few at the top. Witness the lack of regulation of the banks and insurance companies and the obscene compensation packages. The rest of us pay the bulk of the taxes and have no recourse to fight for our rights against abusive corporate practices. Supposedly the Right is for individual liberties, but that’s incorrect. In their world the individual has no rights against their government or corporate interests.
- Then there’s the forcible suppression of opposition. It began with the ugly Republican rallies during the 2008 campaign. Remember the video where you can hear someone in the audience yell “kill him?” Then there were the teabaggers, the birthers and now the health care nuts. With each case, they are striving to shout down and intimidate any opposition. A Democratic congressman has received death threats, and threats against Obama have been spiking. And what are the leaders of the Republican party doing to calm things down? Nothing. These are Brown Shirt tactics straight out of Hitler’s playbook.
- And of course, they are exalting race. The vast majority of the people we see on TV opposing the current administration are white. The Republican Party almost unanimously opposed the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor. There’s the whole birther movement. Clearly these people are not happy if their leaders are not lily white. There’s a reason the Republican Party now appears to have its core in the South.
It is not the Democrats who are the Fascists; it is the KKK, private militias, Skinheads and now the Republican Party.
Meanwhile, Democrats are having to fight a continuous stream of lies, misinformation, threats and intimidation to get out their message of preserving individual rights. It’s outrageous really. Who could argue against health care reform when we are spending twice as much as any other country and having results that indicate that on balance we have some of the worst health care in the world? What’s to argue about?
But the Right Wing is out to defeat our first black president no matter what the cost, and they are funded by the insurance industry and corporations whose interests lie in maintaining the status quo. If you are a true patriot who cares about America, you must stand up against them. Write and call your legislators. Attend town halls. Write letters to the editor. Write blogs. Call in to talk shows.
We can’t let them get away with this.
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August 5th, 2009
One thing I’m totally fed up with is how Republicans and Conservatives wrap themselves in the flag and call themselves patriots. No, they aren’t. The real patriotic Americans are the Democrats, Moderates, Liberals and Progressives, and I think it is high time that we take our symbol back.
When Conservative talk show hosts call for the failure of the Obama administration, that’s not patriotic. When Republicans call for the failure of health care reform so that it might become Obama’s “Waterloo,” that’s not patriotic. When Republicans and Conservatives conspire with lobbyists to disrupt town hall meetings, that’s not patriotic. All these things are diametrically opposed to the principals of our democracy. They are evil.
I don’t know what’s gone wrong with these guys, other than the fact that they trashed the Constitution, screwed up the country, lost an election and are now throwing themselves on the floor having a tantrum, but they should no longer be the keepers of the flag.
I would like to see every Democrat, Moderate, Liberal and Progressive carrying a flag at every town hall meeting. I would like to see them flying flags from their homes, cars, bumpers and clothing. It’s time we took our symbol back.
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July 25th, 2009
In this morning’s paper was a letter to the editor railing against the proposed health care reforms because “when the state pays for health care, the state gets to make decisions about who gets health care, and how much.” The author compared the current proposals to those of the Nazis and the Communists. Do I detect a trend here? Is this a Republican, Conservative, right-wing talking point?
First, I would like to call attention to the fact that the above mentioned health programs were run by RIGHT-WING nut jobs, dictators and despots. These are the same type of people who think it’s perfectly okay to wiretap their citizens and imprison them indefinitely without charges.
This is what drives me crazy about the Republican party and the conservative movement. Given my druthers I would love to run scans on many of their brains to try to gain an understanding of how their twisted thinking originates. But of course, that is something the Right would command, and the Left would never seriously consider.
The same people who urged government involvement in the very private matter of the Terry Schiavo case are the same ones who mischaracterize the current plan as a government plot to intrude in our health care decisions. Seriously, what cluster of brain cells is firing?
My insurance company has the absolute right to determine what care I get and how much of it I am entitled to. They also determine what medicines I can be prescribed and what tests I get. You may have heard stories of women giving birth and being forced to leave the hospital in a matter of hours. And how about the women forced to leave the hospital after a mastectomy and dragging their drainage tubes behind them? Kicking people out of hospitals early is not the decision of the hospital or the physician. It’s purely at the behest of insurance companies.
My daughter was delivered via caesarian section. I moved and changed insurance companies a few years later and guess what was specifically excluded from that new policy for several years? Anything that might have resulted from or could possibly be blamed on that c-section.
My mother is on Medicare. Her government run health care program is exquisite. No one tells her what doctors to see or what level of care is permitted. Those decisions are made purely by my mother and her providers.
My husband served in the military many years ago and has VA. His government run health care is terrific. His doctors spend considerable time with him, and with their sophisticated record-keeping nothing is missed.
The utter failure in our current health care system is the insurance-based part of it. It doesn’t work. It’s overpriced. It’s inefficient. It’s corrupt. It’s flat out cruel.
What the hell are these Conservative and Republican idiots talking about? Their arguments are pure “1984.” The rabbit hole. Lunacy.
If for no other reason than to actually force the insurance companies to compete, we need the public option.
Therefore, in the interest of what the editorial page letter writer referred to as the “collective,” I demand CT scans for all of those on the right who are making these specious arguments against government involvement. (And I also want to see their emails, bank records, telephone bills, employment histories, etc.)
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June 9th, 2009
And that’s only if I’m not being particularly cynical. A few days ago I heard on Ed Schultz’s TV show an elected Republican say that everyone in this country has coverage because all they have to do is show up at any emergency room. Really? People without insurance are charged much more than people with insurance, and everyone ends up subsidizing the uninsured who can’t pay. Maybe even the insurance industry. If you happen to be an honorable person who pays their bills and if you are uninsured, this whole process can sink you. Sixty percent of all bankruptcies today are health care related.
Elected Republican leaders would have us believe that there is actually competition in the health care marketplace. My brother is a physician, and his rates are effectively set by insurance companies. Because of antitrust laws he is not allowed to discuss his fees with any other provider, which means they can’t possibly join together to negotiate with the insurance companies. Furthermore, if they complain too loudly they may be kicked out of the preferred provider network.
Basically no one is able to negotiate with the insurance companies, and they establish the charges and fees for everything. The people at both ends of the delivery system are hurt.
People in this country are proud of figuring things out for themselves. In this instance, I think we would be well advised to look overseas. Other countries have figured this out, and it’s a truly idiotic person who stubbornly insists on reinventing the wheel.
Republicans argue that socialized medicine means rationed care. Really? If I can’t afford to see a physician because I don’t have insurance or because the deductibles are too high, is that care not being rationed? And when my insurance company denies a prescription or procedure my doctor recommends, is that care not being rationed? And if I have to wait several weeks or months to see a specialist, is that care not being rationed?
Give me a break.
Our health care if the most expensive in the world, and by all measures on average our health care sucks. One of the best measures of a country’s health care is the infant mortality rate, and we’re down there with third world countries.
The Republicans (and a few Dems) would have us believe we can’t afford single-payer health care. Is this true? If we adopted one of the models being used elsewhere, there are many items we, as individuals or businesses, likely would not have to pay for anymore: family coverage, dental coverage, prescription coverage, tests, the medical portion of our car insurance, workers compensation and probably much more. What is the real cost of these items? How much are we all actually paying for them today?
If we were all lumped into one giant group, how much would the real cost be for each of us under a single payer plan? If I could trade my current plan for a such a plan that covers all the stuff I listed above, I would jump at it. Would the costs be comparable? We don’t know. And we should.
The big boys at the top of the insurance industry have benefited greatly. So have their lobbyists. We all know where their interests lie, and it is not with us, the general public. If I assume elected Republicans, and a few Democrats, are not bought and paid for by the insurance industry, that means either they are complete idiots or they are incredibly mean spirited.
There’s one sure way to find out. We must not allow our Republican legislators (and the few Dems) to continue lining the pockets of their insurance industry/corporate friends. We must hound our elected representatives to provide us with a single payer system. It works (my husband is VA), it’s affordable (my mother’s on Medicare), and we can do this. We must not be bullied. It’s time to bring this idiocy to an end.
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