The other day, a friend from Florida shared an article that was found on the Fox news network. It tried to make claims of opinions voiced by democrats, republicans and independents. Read it here: Fifty Five Percent Oppose Health Care Reform
I would at least entertain this article as having some believable info if it did not cite the Fox news network poll (that claims 55% support against the reform issue). I might even actually consider Fox as a reasonable general source of info if they did not feature people like Beck and Palin. Honestly, I do not understand how anyone can get behind them. When I read statements like “By two-to-one people think the quality of their family’s health care would be worse, rather than better”. It’s strange to me that when I speak with most people about this issue, the numbers are almost exactly reversed… more believe the country will be better off with the health care reform efforts, rather than without it. So the key word here, as in the rest of that article, is “think”. The reason people “think” what they do is more about how they’ve been manipulated and propagandized rather than what they truly understand. And, yes, that goes for both sides.
Given an article that makes so many claims, I’d like to see charts or graphs, or some kind of visual presentation, and I’d also like to know where, when and how the information was obtained. I realize you can get a demographic with numbers by opening the pdf document, but frankly, who’s going to go that far, and in that case, what would make me believe that the demographic numbers of democrats, republicans and independents is real? Polls are always skewed, no matter who they’re compiled by or how.
I’m sure you’re wondering how that terrible video showing tea partiers berating a man with Parkinson’s ever made it to the public’s eye. Like it or not, that was a huge blow to the tea party effort, and shows the mean spirit of one-sided thinking taken to an extreme. People with sensibility and compassion are appalled by this display and it tends to reinforce what they believed to be the one-sided agenda of the tea party.
“America’s Socialist Future”… come on! I guess we’ll see now how soon the hammer and sickle fly over Washington. Not too soon, I predict. What the republican party and tea party faction call their perceived trend toward socialism is nothing more than an effort by democrats to equalize a disparity that has existed in this country for far too long. Hopefully, the mindset of “the benefits of privilege” will skulk back into depths of hell where it belongs, and everyone can “benefit” by good health.
Last night we heard so many republican arguments about how this bill is a trend toward socialism, and that we need health care reform, but just not this bill. What would make any bill that attempts to grant the same opportunity for good health less socialist? And does that mean in this context that we’ll transform into a communist state? I don’t “think” so.
Will republicans find a way to reform health care… based on what we know about their input to the current bill? Again, I don’t “think” so.
