This is a question I received by email from a close friend of mine after we had been talking on the phone about the ballistic reaction by the MSM to the "town hall gun nut" - and my response of course.


-----Original Message-----
From: REDACTED
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:59 PM
To: Mark
Subject: Confusion..

Back a couple months ago, you were saying that the "tea parties" were corporate sponsored BS sessions.

Why do you feel different about the townhalls where everyone is bashing the Cronies over health care?

Not picking a fight just curious,,,

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I don't feel much different about these events at all. I think there are both people with valid concerns AND wingnut lunatics of the same stripe as were at the tea parties. Only this time there are the same types of feeble minded sycophants on both sides being brought together and into conflict. Agree or disagree with whatever though a man still has a right to open carry in the vicinity of one,.. period.

What I really think is:

Many of the arguments against Obamacare, death panels and such, are EXACTLY what we are already getting from private insurance so that shit is ridiculous.

On the other hand, with eugenicists in high places every paranoid fantasy has a very real chance of becoming reality no matter how the bill reads despite some of the right wing rhetoric (and left wing responses) being completely retarded.

The bill will be a disaster, simply because it is essentially written by big pharma and insurance, and will likely benefit a few (at best) in return for a giant bailout of the pharma and insurance industries even though they hardly need one, want evidence? Well the pharmaceutical companies are rolling out a joint $150,000,000 ad campaign supporting it (http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23241.htm) - end of story.

In any case there is no sane basis for national health care since health care is not specifically enumerated in the constitution and is therefore one of those things that is reserved to the states and the people, only the shipping of medicines and other interstate commerce in medical equipment and services is legally under the jurisdiction of the feds. When it comes right down to it I'm really not that interested in the details because it is an illegal clusterfuckfest no matter what side of the false left/right paradigm you may decide to dangle your tootsies on.

I really do not need to know the details of the bill in order to be certain about all of this. The bill is shit, it's advocates are full of shit and it's detractors are full of shit as well. Just a big steaming pile of shit no matter how you hold it up to the light or what angle you look at it from.

The only reason it exists at all right now is because it is a wonderful wedge issue to keep the left and the right fighting each other instead of surrounding DC in unison with torches and pitchforks. Would any sane person really try REAL healthcare reform at the beginning of what promises to be a very long depression without some ulterior motive (remember they know the economy is fucked even if they won't admit it in public). I think not, and it stands to reason that there is another motive that being the case. Divide and conquer bitches, it works on the sucker ass public every fucking time and THIS is the shit to which people REALLY have to awaken to rather than just individual subjects no matter how important they may be.

And why the fuck do they need to have all these town halls in the first place? To promote democracy or actually listen to what people have to say? Fat fucking chance. It's a wonderful way to inflame emotions and stir the pot though. If all of our energy is spent on beating each other up over a relative non-issue like this then the establishment need never again worry about accountability for war crimes, illegal surveilance of citizens, torture rape of prisoners, and well, just a shitload of things that any sane person should agree is important whether left or right. Please pay attention to my right hand holding the magic wand says the magician, DON'T pay attention to my left hand which is pulling out the rabbit which has been suffocating between my ass cheeks for the last half hour.

I'd love to see true single payer healthcare instituted properly and legally by the state of Washington. Obama on the other hand can lick my uninsured/untreated hemorrhoids.


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