I don't know what's really on the minds of the citizens currently ransacking their local congressperson's town hall meeting or office the country over. Some say they're little more than actors (scripts provided) paid or encouraged by special interests who seek to preserve the status quo of "no healthcare for one sixth of the population, poor healthcare for fourth sixths of the population, and good healthcare for rich people."
Others insist that despite whatever "astroturf" machinations behind the protests, there are genuine concerns amongst the citizenry that health reform - or health insurance reform, as the White House now bills it - would...what? Do something bad, probably.
Whatever the case, I'm surprised by the fickle nature of citizen protest in a country so in love with its freedom (something it behaves as if it invented and deserves eternal groveling for). Thousands of lower class American children are dead in a war - the Global War on Terror - that is now proven beyond even the tiniest sliver of doubt to have been a lie. Not an accidental white lie, mind you, but a grand deceit. Blood has been spilt, those who spilt it admit as much, and they sleep well at night.
And here you are, then, waving swastikas - swastikas - at the proposition of reforming citizens' healthcare. A bewildered semi-outsider asks "why this, and not that?" and further considers declaring the American Experiment a walking corpse being propped up and dragged around left and right in the hope of finding some gold (oil; LCD TV). Not unlike the plot to Weekend at Bernie's, now that I think about it.
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