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In reply to the discussion: European-style welfare states are lovely! [View all]kctim
(3,575 posts)Do you not believe it is possible to support those who need help without violating the freedoms of others? Have you ever given it any thought at all or do you simply dismiss the things our founders believed in with negative labels when they do not agree with your opinion?
Going by recent elections, you are not going to get the universal health care you so desire for a while. Shouting at and labeling those who don't agree with you obviously is not working, so don't you think another plan may be in order? Say something like a voluntary government plan that could be used to show how effective it can be, which in turn would give the universal health care cause the votes it needs?
"Health IS a human right, every human DESERVES that right. If you don't believe in that, that is NOT my problem"
Ah, but if the majority do not agree with you and do not want to support you, it IS your problem.
"Maybe one of the reasons Americans haven't voted for such candidates is that they haven't snapped out of their Reaganite "Soshulized Medicine" brainwashing on the subject since 1962"
Or, more than likely, they have not decided to trade their freedom of choice for another government program yet? Maybe, just maybe, people who dare disagree with your personal views and beliefs are NOT as stupid as you want them to be?