Health Care
I was just woken up in a rage thinking of the argument I was having with an acquaintance of mine over the purposed Health Care Bill. This dispute happened over Facebook, making it drag out for 2 days, and be even more harsh as the two of us had plenty of time to research our responses and make sure they were 100% accurate, and filled with as much zing as possible. I should also mention, that this person is not exactly my friend, per se, but is in fact somebody that I used to smoke doja with to pass the time. I never did viewed him as somebody of intellect–after stumbling into managing a friend of his (out of necessity), he came to me when he was presented a record contract and asked me to look over it, see if it was “kosher”. The same kid, subsequently, ask me for cocaine. (Which for the record, I do not do. I’m a downers kind of girl…) I saw on Facebook that he had mentioned something about Obama being a dictator, who was going to eliminate old people. This is ridiculous. Appalling. I never thought that America, as a whole, could dumb it self down any further. Although I suppose that this is the same country that invented Celebrity Boxing.
Do people really think that Obama is sitting in the oval office, planning out ways to make the elderly obsolete? I keep wondering: why they are so scared of Obama? By they, (by the way), I mean not only republicans, but anybody that has tried to convince me that Obama wants to kill me via my health care plan. Do they REALLY believe that Obama has plotted, for his entire life, to get into the White House for the sole purpose of taking down America, or that he is weeding people out to create his own elite army of people? If that is true, Obama is certainly conspiring with our old friend Dick.
I would be down with all of this controversial thought questioning the Presidents actions, if it were helpful or lead to intelligent, progressive discussion. But it doesn’t. Mainly because every argument these gun-toting, Obama hating, “THIS IS AMERICA!” screaming citizens have thrown up, have been proved completely farce. Fake birth certificates, rumors of “Death Panels” (my personal favorite); and lets all try to remember, that screaming out “liar” does not make it true. Not only does this not spark thoughtful dialogue, it does the wost thing. It provokes fear into the hearts of already edgy, over-paranoid and protected, I’ll say it, old people. The people who are my age that believe in these odious lies are products of the scared, misinformed people. For god sake the person I was arguing with over Facebook was talking about how our government is fucked up and needs to be overhauled as a result of what W left us. Are you serious? That’s exactly what’s attempting to be done. Not only by Obama, but all of us. More and more people have become politically aware, and more and more have becoming involved. This last presidential election had the second highest amount of youth voters, with 54.5%, in history. (Second only to the elections of 1972, when 18 year olds were allowed to vote for the first time. We all care, and nobody is going to passively walk into the fire. As the gun-totters say, “this is America”, and if it’s not withholding internet porn that will make us rise up in rebellion, threatening our freedoms, the foundations of this country, will. Nobody is going to sit by while our country is torn to pieces, it’s just that most of us would like some evidence, some kind of proof beyond ludicrous rumors. From here, our point of view is that we’re chillin’.
Now here it is, the big bang; I’m about to admit something that every single arguing American will relate with, but will never dare to admit or possible even lie about: I don’t fully understand the language of the Health Bill. Yes, I said it; and yes, I have read it, nearly all of it–but that doesn’t mean shit. I understand roughly 1/6 of what I read. What I didn’t see was anything that would make me board up my house. I didn’t see anything mandating panels of people to judge your status in our society, I didn’t not see anything that says health care would be provided for illegal immigrants. (I have seen this argument pop up a few times, my argument is, did we not all come here as illegal immigrants? Is this not that immigrant capitol of the world? I say give em’ health care, it’s not like they have not worked enough for us.)
My biggest fear is that these people are all afraid, mainly, because Obama’s skin color. Which would make me sick to my stomach. It would confirm my suspicion, that much of the “social acceptance of diversity” that I see happening is false. A facade to make themselves feel, but mainly look, like better people. I ask again, for the second time on this blog: how far have we come? When we are still willing to make childish name comparison, and openly throw out phrases like “the great white hope”. (Kansas representative Lynn Jenkins said that the republican party needed a “Great White Hope” to take back the white house from Obama in 2012. Read more here.) So what are we really about? Are we really the cultural melting pot we have praised ourselves for being?
I don’t have answers, only more questions. Right now I am tired and angry, having woke up at 4:30 am in a fury to write this. Now it’s 6, and I should sleep. I will publish this, but edit it later, so sorry if it’s a little more on the ranting side.
By the way, if Obama wasn’t president, do you all realize that Sarah Palin would in the White House?
Hardball MSNBC – The man who carried a loaded gun to the Obama public meeting
This guy scares me. Though I gotta say, the Hardball guy is always rough….
“Uh, wow, heh, who would be silly enough to carry an unloaded weapon?”
