NOWToronto: Health care debate (in US) suggests the nation suffers from delusions of invincibility

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from NOW Toronto:



Death becomes them
Health care debate suggests the nation suffers from delusions of invincibility

By Jacob Scheier


New York City – When it comes to health care reform, the U.S. reminds me of a relative I had who suffered paranoid delusions, likely due to brain tumours. Trying to help her led to accusations that I was trying to harm her.

True, she didn’t call me, as Barack Obama’s critics have labelled him, a “socialist,” but only because that was a compliment in our family.

The fact that a Sarah Palin-?invented delusion about Obama supporting “death panels” – supposedly to decide if the infirm should be treated – may be a significant factor in killing real reform is enough to make any sane person crazy.

But those protesters at the town halls and the recent million-?lunatic march (about 60,000) on Washington, DC, aren’t really afraid of death panels. They’re afraid of death itself.

The problem arises from the fact that many Fox Network-?type Americans do not die but are or will be Raptured up. They are for death panels, or, rather, for one particular death panel: the one overseen by Jesus Christ. God, unlike Democrats, has a precise plan for their health.

Then there’s America’s reckless unilateralism and massive debt, both of which suggest that the nation is suffering from delusions of untouchability. And don’t forget the cult of celebrity, where the famous rarely show signs of aging, and those who do do so inhumanly, like Michael Jackson. Mostly celebs simply vanish as if Raptured up, while those of us who actually age, get wrinkled, gain weight and lose hair are left behind. ........(more)

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