Helping People is Socialism
The modern day Conservative Movement has convinced millions of otherwise smart and sensible Americans that to help their neighbors and fellow citizens is an evil so profound as to be neigh on par with that age old bogeyman, Socialism. Children shouldn’t have health care, the President, a pro-family Christian, told us, because… well, he never really did say why. But he implied that if lower middle class children got used to having ready access to health care, then poor children and even adults would expect to have access to health care that borders on the Universal and well, we all know how bad that is. Just look at France! With their lower infant mortality rates, longer life expectancy and lower rates of obesity and chronic illness, plus all those doctors on call 24/7, why it’s a veritable Hell of Socialized Medicine! It’s a wonder that the French don’t flock across the ocean for our American style, sub par health care with it’s built in hidden fees, byzantine bureaucracy and outrageous prescription costs.
Meanwhile, Bush and his cronies in the Federal Reserve are debating how much money they’re going to use to bail out the banks who are floundering under a wave of defaulted mortgages. I mean, it’s not like they’re sick kids here, these are bankers! And they need our help!
How exactly Socialism got the stench of evil about it is a long and convoluted story. Mostly, it’s lingering word association games played during the early twentieth century. socialism was something that the lower classes engaged in. It was foreign. Never mind that Germany’s National Socialism party was built on a foundation of free market fundamentalism, Christian identity politics, racism and rabid nationalism and that the Nazis imprisoned Socialists along with Jews, Gypsies, Commies, Gays and anyone who pointed out that what they were doing was neither in the best interests of the nation nor actually socialism of any variety. Oh, and stark raving evil.
Nevermind that the late twentieth century saw a melding of democratic principles with socialistic ideals that created a dozen solid examples of what it means to be egalitarian, humanitarian and truly democratic. To listen to Gulianni, McCain or any of the other GOP Presidential contenders, you’d think that Europe was a floundering shipwreck, casting off starving survivors forced to gnaw on the bones of their own sick and dying children just to keep their wine glasses full in th afternoon while they sat around discussing Sarte and not going to Church. Not that the democrats are doing much better. Obama, Clinton and Edwards have nearly identical Health Care plans and though they are bordering on Universal Health Care, neither one of them has the guts to stand up and say it proudly. Kucinich does but did you hear? He may have seen an object in the sky one night that he couldn’t identify! What a loon! He’s no where near as presidential as Mitt “I have magical underwear!” Romney.
Any time one of those kooky pervert Republicans starts mocking Clinton or Obama or Edwards for their Universal Health Care-in-everything-but-name, they should respond by saying, “Yeah, so? Are you telling me and the American People that Health care like this is good enough for the French but not for Americans? Why should the French get something we don’t? It’ snot because we can’t afford it, since in every country that has universal health care, it costs less per person than this flaming mess we have now!” I want to see Edwards get so angry, his hair comes untucked. I want to see Obama do something other than the Minstrel show shuffle. Or Clinton at least pretend to be an outraged mother. That would be something the Americans could relate to, an angry mom whose kid is sick and no one will treat them because their paperwork isn’t in triplicate and preopproved by some jackass in a Bangalore Basement staring at a computer screen prompting him to shuffle on to the next case because this one is costing the Health care Company too much money.
But, instead we get platitudes. Every politician admitting silently that helping people is Socialism. And Socialism is evil. So, fuck you grandma and little Joey. You’re broken hip or persistent cough will probably kill you because to help you would be to commit the unforgivable sin of following Europe’s example. Because if it wasn’t Made in America (but manufactured cheaper in China), than it’s just not an option.
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helping people is sosiolism, what is CLAIMING to help people when
its not helping at all but quietly screwing them as much as you can?
Why, that’s Democracy, Dan.
Silly librarian, helping poor or middle class people is evil but helping bail out the upper classes is to be expected.
correction on last post: (sorry for goof ups, it was late)
should read: “…according to the basic law of economics…”, not “dynamics”
We conservatives are very charitable people. We love giving money away. Well at least I do and my large circle of conservative friends do. We do this because we are Christians. We have a HUGE problem with liberals giving away other people’s money.
That’s really the whole crux of it all. Conservatives are charitable with their own money while Liberals are charitable with other people’s money.
So there you go.