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Louve00 -> RE: The Lie Machine (9/29/2009 3:35:11 PM)
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I haven't read all 36 pages of it. I just don't have the time to sit down and read the left's summary of how the right calculates and scrutinizes all the ways democrats try to bring about change. We all know the 'status quo' is unacceptable. We know if we keep going as we are right now, (and I honestly, be it naive or not, feel big pharma and insurance companies don't want things to change...they want to continue to oversee the way things are run for their behalf), that when we need it, the system is going to be broke, busted and not there for us altogether.
If people on this lone, little forum board can sit down and think of viable reasons to try to make this work, believe me, the politicians already know it could. But who's in it for what cause? If we knew ALL the answers to that question we would probably give up on the political system altogether.
I know people (usually) are afraid of change. No matter how bad their situation is now, they are comfortable with it and willing to settle for leaving it as it is, if it means, for an instant, entertaining all the horrors that are proposed to them. For that matter, that very mindset goes far further than healthcare but for all causes. If people don't start truly, actually, hell...even selfishly, thinking for themselves in a way that could benefit our system we will be chained to the democratic/republican game. We have other parties. They are further minorities than blacks and hispanics though. Its why I tend to vote for republican or democrat based on the causes being proposed...not on the party proposing them. I know thats not standing 'up for what I truly believe in...but I feel its a waste of a vote and since I do believe in our system, however corrupt it may be, I don't want my vote wasted on an independant or libertarian vote, when at best can obtain 5% or less of a vote, and its going to be a repub or dem anyway. So I try to put my voice in where I think I would best want it to be, under the way things just....are.
I don't even care if it is the public option anymore. The conservatives have completed turned alot of people off to that phrase alone, so as far as I'm concerned, yea...drop it. But!!! Somehow, use their imagination as repubs do to debunk them, to bring true competition and fairness to the table. Find a way to make insurance and big pharma concede (a tad). Find a way to give people a better way than being stuck under a rock, in fear, at the mercy of those companies who are holding their breath that this reform doesn't pass. Eliminate the waste. Truly investigate it and take it seriously and stop it. There is more than we'd like to admit as a contribution to this problem. They'd sooner say eliminating waste is cutting benefits. Whats worse is...people will believe that, instead of digging deeper into what means what. And the people who stand up there, making it sound "oh-so-plausible"...are the people with the most to lose (financially). On all counts. Thats why we have people...not politicians, who can make these things happen....out in the streets, thinking of ways to kill the president. Because the hype scares them too much to even find out if its true.
And alas...all I can do is give my thoughts on the summary of what I think. How to really change it? I haven't a clue.
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