Clarity and explanation will be key.
A lot of people think “free” healthcare is Obamacare.
They don’t know that the cost will rise and care will become compromised and rationed.
They need to have it put into terms that relate to their understanding of how economics works — that we don’t have the resources or should we want government to control healthcare (which translates into control over ALL we do).
Don’t they go to the DMV, the US Post Office?
WHEN did a government agency EVER improve cost and delivery?
N-E-V-E-R!
Answer?
Yes they do go to the DMV and yes they do go to the Post Office.
They are very accustomed to dealing with government agencies at all levels. They wait in lines, they struggle with bureacracy’s demands, they behold the crumbs when they do get anything, while behind the counters and desks are people who make good salaries and have fine benefits and have “made it in America”.
The promises, the words from politicians’ mouths, is what they feed on, psychologically. They are not ever well off, therefore as the somewhat downtrodden they are ever vulnerable to that false rhetoric about laws that are going to “help”.
The people trapped in this system are still the system’s most gullible supporters.
Now we have run up against the Thatcher rule...the brick wall she spoke of. The problem with Socialism comes when you run out of other people’s money.
We’re there, in fact we’re PAST there and careening down into an abyss.
I know there’s a problem with this big government power grab, so it’s much more than “we’re broke”.
However, THEY don’t see that. They see nothing but never ending largesse that still doesn’t get them anywhere but trapped.
But the largesse has bankrupted us, just as Maggie said. And if they don’t understand about too much power that doesn’t work, and about being truly broke, then what we have to do is persuade as many as we can, and all those we can’t, we have to politically BEAT THEM LIKE A DRUM.