The politics of the last 30 years, in a single sentence.

phantom power

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Mon Aug-03-09 09:47 AM
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The politics of the last 30 years, in a single sentence.

"We've got a problem, but the Democrats are going to take over X and make things worse."

The essence is really quite simple: regulation of insurers, so that they can�t cherry-pick only the healthy, and subsidies, so that all Americans can afford insurance.

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That�s it. Any commentator who whines that he just doesn�t understand it is basically saying that he doesn�t want to understand it.

Everyone in the place was complaining about the insurance companies and how broken the system was. But they were also convinced that the Democrats are trying to pass socialized medicine. When I asked what they thought that meant, they said, "government takeover of health care." And they were seriously worried about how that was going to affect them.

I don't know where these people are getting this. They aren't political, they don't listen to talk radio or read blogs. This is just what's out in the ether, what people are saying in casual conversation. The ear worm is "we've got a problem, but the Democrats are going to take over health care and make things worse." It's not entirely surprising, but it's depressing nonetheless.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/wonk-speech-by-digby-we-spend-lot-of.html

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bluestateguy

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Mon Aug-03-09 09:49 AM
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1. The private sector did such a fine job with airport security

they "security" checkpoints were manned by uneducated, booger eating morons who couldn't tie their shoes straight.

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phantom power

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Mon Aug-03-09 09:53 AM
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3. Until we kill the "private sector is always superior to govt" meme...

America is going to continue becoming more and more dysfunctional. That meme basically kneecaps any productive public discourse on a wide spectrum of problems. Health care being just one of them.

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Echo In Light

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Mon Aug-03-09 09:52 AM
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2. It's funny how the Right slams the Dems even though they rely on them so much

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BR_Parkway

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Mon Aug-03-09 09:54 AM
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4. I thought it was "I've got mine, fuck you"

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