10-04-2013, 05:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-04-2013, 05:58 PM by FireIceTalon.)
I didn't edit anything, I posted the information as I got it. As for her trying to actually break into the Capitol Building, is this what really happened, or how news media is reporting it? No matter how you slice it, the cops fired on an unarmed person, and killed her even if she was crazy. Just because it happened to be in a government area doesn't justify this. It just further shows how we view the disabled and mentally ill in this country. But this whole ordeal shows a few other things also: firstly, that we continue to have the attitude that a suspect must always be armed until it is revealed they are not - its based on a shoot first ask questions later mentality. Second, while 9/10 out of times is a bit stretch, this IS in general, how police respond to these kind of situations. And third, it really shows the medias ignorance (or selective reporting) outside of gentrified areas unless it is a mass shooting or something.
As for the government shutdown, not sure how shutting the government down is turning against the Tea Party. That's what these crackpots have wanted all along, and they finally got it. Boehner isn't a Tea Partier but he certainly panders to them, as most of the GOP these days does.
As for the whole Obamacare thing, I've come to the conclusion that it has two purposes. Firstly, it is basically useless w/o the public option, and how or why the GOP thinks it is even remotely "socialist" is beyond me since much of the bill was proposed by the insurance companies anyway. But it is a political tactic used by the far right not just to discredit the Obama Administration, but to further demonize and portray Socialism as something that it is not. Which is why half the brain dead populace thinks Obama is a Marxist and thinks we are already living under socialism. I'm not sure how many people I've encountered where I had to explain to them why Obama is not a Marxist or socialist, and why we are not living under socialism, but its been quite a few. The GOP and the ruling class in general knows capitalism is failing big time, and that their shoddy system is on the brink. The denouncement of Obamacare is a fear mongering tactic to try confuse people ideologically. Its just an extension of the same crappy Cold War and Mccarthy era politics, and the current GOP, especially the Tea Party is the current incarnation of that. Of course, I'm not defending Obamacare, because it became useless the minute the public option was gutted.
Secondly, as a more short-term political goal, it is simply to keep the healthcare industry in private hands, and the bill was butchered to the point that people will look back on this as a failure since it is really just a giveaway to the insurance companies and what is more, is that is mandated by law. As a result, it will become much more difficult if not impossible for America to ever get a universal healthcare system because of this whole fiasco. The GOP only wants rich people to have healthcare, not the average joe. It's that simple.
As for the government shutdown, not sure how shutting the government down is turning against the Tea Party. That's what these crackpots have wanted all along, and they finally got it. Boehner isn't a Tea Partier but he certainly panders to them, as most of the GOP these days does.
As for the whole Obamacare thing, I've come to the conclusion that it has two purposes. Firstly, it is basically useless w/o the public option, and how or why the GOP thinks it is even remotely "socialist" is beyond me since much of the bill was proposed by the insurance companies anyway. But it is a political tactic used by the far right not just to discredit the Obama Administration, but to further demonize and portray Socialism as something that it is not. Which is why half the brain dead populace thinks Obama is a Marxist and thinks we are already living under socialism. I'm not sure how many people I've encountered where I had to explain to them why Obama is not a Marxist or socialist, and why we are not living under socialism, but its been quite a few. The GOP and the ruling class in general knows capitalism is failing big time, and that their shoddy system is on the brink. The denouncement of Obamacare is a fear mongering tactic to try confuse people ideologically. Its just an extension of the same crappy Cold War and Mccarthy era politics, and the current GOP, especially the Tea Party is the current incarnation of that. Of course, I'm not defending Obamacare, because it became useless the minute the public option was gutted.
Secondly, as a more short-term political goal, it is simply to keep the healthcare industry in private hands, and the bill was butchered to the point that people will look back on this as a failure since it is really just a giveaway to the insurance companies and what is more, is that is mandated by law. As a result, it will become much more difficult if not impossible for America to ever get a universal healthcare system because of this whole fiasco. The GOP only wants rich people to have healthcare, not the average joe. It's that simple.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)