Thanks, I did mean to point out that she is PERFECTLY SAFE in her little district and that the Dems are IDIOTS for keeping her as leader when she has nothing to lose by being totally off the wall.
My main point is that Socialized Medicine is SO IMPORTANT for the Democrats that they will sacrifice a decade (or more) of being out of power, if that’s what it take to not let it slip away.
The difficult part, for me, is understanding just why it’s that important to them.
“The difficult part, for me, is understanding just why it’s that important to them.”
That’s easy, actually. It is one of several nexuses (nexii?) that combines several of their bumper-sticker-deep thoughtlines into one multi-channel thoroughfare of “forget about the consequences/don’t complete the sentence” liberal initiatives. Google “Evan Sayet” on YouTube for some good talks he has given on this point.
To be a winning liberal thought, simply expressing the thought must assume the character of coming from a higher moral place than, well, you. To want universal healthcare is (for them) to wish unbridled health on all members of a society regardless of their ability to pay for their treatment or their own lifestyle choices as drivers of their illnesses, and as a bonus, to prevent economic hardship for those cases where med bills have bankrupted people or indebted them excessively. How could anyone not want everyone else to be healthy?
A core liberal thought must also be fair, by wanting to even out any mis-distribution of whatever big pot of stuff there is out there that they can see where someone has more than another. It’s unfair that the US has these gluttonous people who consume 25% of the world’s energy even though we’re only 5% of the world’s population. Man, more importantly the individual, has no hope of ever creating for himself new wealth out of nothing, without somehow gouging it out of someone else. By working with a profit motive. Even the farmer, who does, arguably, create something out of nothing, must in some ways be working to extract more money then he really needs over and above providing for his family by raising his crops and greedily selling his surplus to those who should really be getting it for free. The profit motive is evil, predatory, better to be altruistic towards your fellow man.
If you keep going, you see these characteristics with all their jihads: the morally superior platform, the need to trust the experts instead of relying on this amorphous slimy mass of supposedly experienced people looking out for themselves instead of working to elevate society as a whole. And so great and mighty is their cause, why, if it means shutting you up despite your God-guaranteed and Constitutionally-guaranteed right to free speech, that is but a small price to pay for the benefits they and only they have the vision to know you will really, really like once you accept them. But if you resist accepting them and force authorities to forcibly impose them, well, then you’ll get what you deserve for being so stupid.
Global warming/climate change is exactly the same. Minimum wage, exactly the same. Transgendered military, very similar. Illegal immigration/amnesty, exactly the same. If only a scant one percent minority is offended, then an injustice has been done that cannot be allowed to go “unaddressed” (as they are so fond of saying. Because then some egghead can come up with yet another goofball theory why everything before has been so wrong and everything new (especially if it has a cool new name) is going to be so cool, because it will right wrongs and let people write the poetry they were meant to write. No matter what the topic matter, they are the ones who cloak themselves in this ephemeral moral high ground theoretical thing, and from that high ground, your ideas aren’t even worth listening to. Doesn’t matter your experience, your knowledge of some industry, even your knowledge of human nature. Those are prejudices and mental shortcomings only they and their superior knowledge should make you abandon with glee. But if not, they’ll kill you, mmmkay?
All of their core issues are formulated with this precise recipe. All of them.
That goes for the electorate. As for liberal politicians, they are just rent-seeking and job-security seeking pigs at the public trough wanting to attract supporters so they can stay in office by giving away money that isn’t theirs. They may or may not see the liberal so-called thought process, but they’re just interested in being the well-paid heads of the gaggle of dimwits with all the trappings of office.