A Primetime Clash Over Health Care

[PatrickforO]

10. Greed of the corporate interests to whom the politicians are beholden, you mean.

For decades the Koch-funded radical libertarians have carefully sown distrust and hatred of the government, which is the wrong enemy. What Koch wants is everything devolved to state level, because states are much easier to control than either the federal government or local governments. And by making the very people who should love the government hate it instead, Koch and his fellow billionaire parasites have, in effect, gotten away with sucking off more and more money from our treasury, both in the form of government contracts that are given at the expense of programs that help the American people, and more indirectly in the form of tax cuts, which merely keep the money for programs that help people from being available at all.

The government can overreach. It can certainly screw stuff up fast. I concede that point. But please, please, please, let's not get rid of government (drown it in a bathtub, as Grover Norquist says) and replace it with unrestrained capitalism, which is what the billionaire criminals want.

Living under unrestrained capitalism is great for billionaires, shitty for the earth and all life therein and a living hell for most people. We really, really, really DON'T want to live under unrestrained capitalism.

And, a last thought: if you put a pot on the stove and boil some hatred of government broth, add a cup of chest pounding nationalism, and a cup of unrestrained capitalism, then season with some half-baked theology, you get...