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i have to say that i have found these threads too depressing to post in because of the litany of cookie-cutter memes that are everywhere in both from the right. my basic response is similar to charlatans, to marvel at the lengths to which the right is willing to go in mobilizing its demographic on the basis of fear and disinformation and projection.
so we have an economic transition engendered enabled and concealed by 30 years of neoliberalism the realities behind which are now coming home to roost not because they haven't been present but because monetarist bubble-manufacturing is not able to create the illusion of happy valley endless expansion...in this context there is a perfectly reasonable move, to extend health care access to the 30 plus million uninsured. this is an ethical problem that's being addressed AND a political problems and i cannot for the life of me figure out how the communications apparatus of the administration managed to find a way to not frame this debate so that the right noise machine could be made to say "we think the uninsured are extraneous people who should die"---because that is in effect the argument they're making---but instead you get all this chicken little horseshit about "the amurican way" blah blah blah.
it'd be funny if i didn't live here.
this is what collapse of empire looks like, sports fans. a running away from reality.
i'm glad the bill passed but i don't like the bill particularly. it should have gone further. there are alot of reasons why it is as it is. some folk have wondered what the administration was thinking in terms of issue framing from the start. i did. but it's good it passed---better than nothing and certainly an improvement over the social barbarism that's obtained so far, which conservatives are trying to defend as "the amurican way"..
but this "debate" insofar as the right is concerned in particular is about as depressing a thing as i can remember.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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