Reductio ad Hitlerum
Aug. 19th, 2009 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mhuzzellI am so, so angry. Feeling helpless, too, being an ocean away from the source of my anger. Embarassed for my home country.
WHAT the FUCK is going on with the right-wing oppositions to Obama's proposed health care bill?
You can probably guess that I would like to see some sort of NHS-style universal health care system brought out in the US, and this plan falls far short of that. So why are the problems of the NHS and Canada's system being trotted out as arguments against it? ... But that is the least of what I'm angry about. I'm sure from a right-wing perspective there are some legitimate issues with the bill, namely the funding of it (despite general support for limitless pointless war spending, but nevermind), but any legitimate discussion of issues -- you know, the kind that might actually lead to some kind of resolution and mutual understanding -- is being stifled by the MOUNTING WAVES OF CRAZY.
My friend Luke wrote a facebook note proposing some Yes Men style actions at town hall meetings, countering the crazies with satire. It'd be a great idea, if those people weren't already saying stuff that is so over the top that I'd be laughing if it weren't for the frustrated crying.
I want to get out there and counter protest. I want to scream it into the streets. But instead I am here, in placid, health-secure Britain, where coverage of the US healthcare debate seems to amount mostly to head-shaking and tut-tutting. What can I do?
WHAT the FUCK is going on with the right-wing oppositions to Obama's proposed health care bill?
You can probably guess that I would like to see some sort of NHS-style universal health care system brought out in the US, and this plan falls far short of that. So why are the problems of the NHS and Canada's system being trotted out as arguments against it? ... But that is the least of what I'm angry about. I'm sure from a right-wing perspective there are some legitimate issues with the bill, namely the funding of it (despite general support for limitless pointless war spending, but nevermind), but any legitimate discussion of issues -- you know, the kind that might actually lead to some kind of resolution and mutual understanding -- is being stifled by the MOUNTING WAVES OF CRAZY.
My friend Luke wrote a facebook note proposing some Yes Men style actions at town hall meetings, countering the crazies with satire. It'd be a great idea, if those people weren't already saying stuff that is so over the top that I'd be laughing if it weren't for the frustrated crying.
I want to get out there and counter protest. I want to scream it into the streets. But instead I am here, in placid, health-secure Britain, where coverage of the US healthcare debate seems to amount mostly to head-shaking and tut-tutting. What can I do?
