Solid concise pitch on the good fixes Medicare for All does while not necessarily making it "cheaper." I appreciate your first two points as well because you articulated a conversation I had just last night with friends. It reminds me of some of the warnings about authoritarian politics that Timothy Snyder provides.
Another possibility is that people supporting the shooting of the CEO exist on both the right and left. Someone expressing sadness over the assassins bullet missing Trump would face a wall of hatred from the Right as well as people on their own side fearing the message that sends.
But this murder is seen as similar to when a gangbanger is murdered by vigilante. Few condemn the gangbanger's murderer. Someone expressing the killing as a "Public Service Homicide" would receive little blowback.
I talked a bit about democracy in my post, but I think that's a pretty expansive understanding of "pro-democracy." A rival understanding could be that everyday people voted for laws against murder because they realized how immoral and dangerous society would be if we let people decide for themselves who's so "exploitative" they deserve to die. So democracy demands that this law be enforced.
I'm not saying that's it's definitely a pro-democracy choice, I'm saying that's the vibes right now. Yeah, murder is bad, but people feel like they are being taken advantage of and that the wool is being pulled over their eyes by people that are not giving them a fair playing ground. And on that part, they are probably right. How many votes would it take to counteract the lobbying money from companies like United Healthcare? How many politicians have promised to stand up against dishonest corporations just to conveniently not be able to do any of those things once elected? It's hard not to have some glee that this one guy rocked these people's world in a way a large amount of us wouldn't have been able to do if we protested and called up our congressmen and the representatives of the company and all of the other normal "democratic" actions to take for the next year.
I do get the sentiment, and my post addresses it. I seem to have more nuanced thoughts on the health insurance industry than most Americans, which suppresses how much "glee" I feel in this case. But I get it.
What surprised me is that people's vibes seem to have felt less "glee" - less vindictive catharsis and sense that he had it coming - from watching Trump's head almost explode than watching some random CEO bleed out in the street. Even if we accept that lobbying is undemocratic, Trump is often the one accepting that lobbying money; often the one promising to stand against corporations and then doing the opposite; often the one pulling the wool over people's eyes and getting away with things we know are wrong, but can't stop no matter how much we call our congressmen, etc. From his crimes to his personality, he's simply a worse person by almost every measure - and yet in his case, most people had the restraint to tell that little voice in their heads to shut up, assassinations are wrong.
You bit into it on this one, ask Dr. Nat! Until such time as Healthcare is taken from the hands of Rank Administrators and returned to the hands of the Physicians, it is only going to get worse. Now they think A.I. can replace a real live M.D.. What you see here is the absolute hate the average person has for Idiocracy, the Irony - as you note - is that they are pure Trumpsters!
Solid concise pitch on the good fixes Medicare for All does while not necessarily making it "cheaper." I appreciate your first two points as well because you articulated a conversation I had just last night with friends. It reminds me of some of the warnings about authoritarian politics that Timothy Snyder provides.
Another possibility is that people supporting the shooting of the CEO exist on both the right and left. Someone expressing sadness over the assassins bullet missing Trump would face a wall of hatred from the Right as well as people on their own side fearing the message that sends.
But this murder is seen as similar to when a gangbanger is murdered by vigilante. Few condemn the gangbanger's murderer. Someone expressing the killing as a "Public Service Homicide" would receive little blowback.
Shooting Trump seems anti-democracy even if you hate Trump. Shooting an exploitative CEO seems pro-democracy.
I talked a bit about democracy in my post, but I think that's a pretty expansive understanding of "pro-democracy." A rival understanding could be that everyday people voted for laws against murder because they realized how immoral and dangerous society would be if we let people decide for themselves who's so "exploitative" they deserve to die. So democracy demands that this law be enforced.
I'm not saying that's it's definitely a pro-democracy choice, I'm saying that's the vibes right now. Yeah, murder is bad, but people feel like they are being taken advantage of and that the wool is being pulled over their eyes by people that are not giving them a fair playing ground. And on that part, they are probably right. How many votes would it take to counteract the lobbying money from companies like United Healthcare? How many politicians have promised to stand up against dishonest corporations just to conveniently not be able to do any of those things once elected? It's hard not to have some glee that this one guy rocked these people's world in a way a large amount of us wouldn't have been able to do if we protested and called up our congressmen and the representatives of the company and all of the other normal "democratic" actions to take for the next year.
I do get the sentiment, and my post addresses it. I seem to have more nuanced thoughts on the health insurance industry than most Americans, which suppresses how much "glee" I feel in this case. But I get it.
What surprised me is that people's vibes seem to have felt less "glee" - less vindictive catharsis and sense that he had it coming - from watching Trump's head almost explode than watching some random CEO bleed out in the street. Even if we accept that lobbying is undemocratic, Trump is often the one accepting that lobbying money; often the one promising to stand against corporations and then doing the opposite; often the one pulling the wool over people's eyes and getting away with things we know are wrong, but can't stop no matter how much we call our congressmen, etc. From his crimes to his personality, he's simply a worse person by almost every measure - and yet in his case, most people had the restraint to tell that little voice in their heads to shut up, assassinations are wrong.
You bit into it on this one, ask Dr. Nat! Until such time as Healthcare is taken from the hands of Rank Administrators and returned to the hands of the Physicians, it is only going to get worse. Now they think A.I. can replace a real live M.D.. What you see here is the absolute hate the average person has for Idiocracy, the Irony - as you note - is that they are pure Trumpsters!