When right-wing/neoconservative Republicans continue to trumpet the scary phrase "government takeover of the healthcare system" I keep on asking them: what about the VA system? what about Medicare/Medicaid?
I've looked at the rabid, oft-times completely irrational opposition to Pres.
Obama and what he has been trying to do over the past year. I look at people who are ready to declare his one-year presidency a failure, as if it would be possible to clear away the detritus of eight years in the blink of an eye. I look at people who talk about him as if he came to power via a coup, when instead he was voted into power by the American people fair and square, 66 million votes to McCain's 58 million. I look at some people and hear the hatred dripping from their voices when they refer to him, they call him all sorts of names, they associate him with the most evil men in history. And then I watched the health care summit that Pres.
Obama organized yesterday, and I began to come to a conclusion that I had long avoided, even if it is the simplest -- but Occam's Razor says that "the simplest explanation or strategy, tends to be the best one". That conclusion is explained in two minutes by
Frank Schaeffer here.
With great sadness, I must agree with him. And I believe that the onus is on every person who is in such rabid, unheeding, frothing-at-the-mouth opposition to our President to prove that the reason that Mr.
Schaeffer expounded is not applicable to them. Especially here at the BEA Forum.
Oh, and I agree with
shara: I, too, do not take kindly to having my words spun around 180 degrees, nor do I appreciate being lumbered with a label like "leftist", especially when the person or persons throwing that word around have no concept of what that word (and many others such as "liberal", "socialist", "conservative", etc.) actually means.