Reply #10: What seriously insane nuts! [View All]

[LeftishBrit]

WHY is government provided health care seen as such a menace? - Akin to Nazism, Communism, and an Evil Jewish Plot (all at the same time!!!) Most other developed countries have government provided health care - and the USA has it for older people - so what is the fear? I know that many right wingers have a sort of hatred for *any* government, and *any* social provision - and that scares *me*. It's less extreme in the UK, but it exists.

I suppose the fact that the current president is black, and internationally connected, whips up their fear and hate even more.

'The lawmakers set the tone early, when Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) asked for the Pledge of Allegiance because "it drives the liberals crazy" to hear the "under God" part (his bravado was premature, for he left out the word "indivisible").'

Somehow that seems symbolic; people like that often *don't* feel allegiance to their country as a whole, but only to their section of it, and like to whip up divisions. I once saw an old issue of Mad Magazine - about 40 years old, I think - which defined a 'Super-Patriot' as 'someone who loves his country - while hating 93% of the people in it'.