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My brain hurts.
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I am totally MLK 2.0.
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It seems to me she's merely a "useful idiot" (to steal an old Soviet term) for the right wing and the insurance lobby.
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She's like one of the wives on Camazotz (in a Wrinkle in Time). They don't know why they sweep the floor at such and such time, why they call in the kids and such and such time, they just do it because the big creepy head told them it's the right thing to do.
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It seems Glenn Beck is the new "IT."
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was that the interview with lawrence o'donnell? i particularly enjoyed the part where o'donnell asked her if her parents would participate in medicare, which is a government-run single payer health care service. her response was "uh... i don't know. we don't talk about politics."
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Had I been at a desk, I'd have banged my head on it.
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I was talking to my dad recently and he is kind of on the fence about health care. I recently graduated college and don't have a job/insurance or really anything useful. He told me that he was unsure about it, but when he thinks about me, he says, "well, maybe this is not such a terrible idea."
The only reason to say no to this is because you are so privileged that you have always had a full time job where you had insurance. You are currently able- bodied, so it's not prohibitively expensive. Anyone who's ever been a freelancer or has decided to try to get private insurance for themselves, knows how ridiculously expensive it is. This opposition is blind to the needs of anyone but their WASPy selves and their WASPy friends.
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My cousin is very likely schizophrenic. He was brave enough to ask his parents for help, but it's getting more and more likely that they won't be able to help him anymore.
No one has an answer for that.
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Republicans seem to be very good at convincing the people they'll fuck over to vote for them.
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They vote aspirationally. They don't realize that they'll never go from cubicle worker x to the CEO. In the mean time, they'll vote republican while complaining about the cost of their prescription drugs, and when it comes time for Lil' Timmy to go to college they'll bitch about college costs. It's just not fair! There should be more scholarships! Heh.
If there's one thing I admire republicans for, it's this. They took the people they're screwing over and got them to agree with them. WELL. PLAYED.
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This concept is particularly effective when a group is, in fact, getting screwed over, like lower-middle-class whites in the Midwest. It also neatly avoids *who* is doing the screwing.
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[www.licensepa.state.pa.us]
Seems her and hubby sell cars.
This is why, BTW, trying to obfuscate who one is, or what one is about tends to fail in the modern age.
Public records searches make it hard to hide.
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Get over yourself, you silly martyr.
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[my.barackobama.com]
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Meanwhile, the NYT reports that Obama's grass-roots support is slow to gather strength this time around, which raises the danger that the forces for the status-quo will outplay the forces for reform. [www.nytimes.com]
So if you are concerned, GET INVOLVED. If you are involved, GET OTHERS INVOLVED. If not, we will all suffer the consequences.
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