I am tired of the bullshit...
Do you support the schmucks who are throwing bricks through their representatives windows?
Are you in favor of the jamokes who cut the gas line of a Rep's brother in Tennessee?
Maybe you feels kinship with the fools who spit on a black congressman last week, or the ones who yelled racist epithets at elected reps.
The troglodytes who follow his irrational line of thinking can't see to grasp the simplest parts of government 101:
In every election,
In every debate,
In every court decision,
In every piece of legislation...
...somebody wins and somebody loses..
The honorable show some class when they lose...
They're gracious - instead of being infantile.
They accept that sometimes one does not get what one wants...
Those of us who suffered through eight years of George Bush, though he was a fool... but we didn't offer to cancel the US Government because of it.
No progressive was out in the street offering to kill representatives
No progressive was carrying a gun to a Presidential appearance.
No progressive threw bricks through Republican rep's windows.
No progressive told America to "reload".
By the way, if you don't grasp the significance in the incidents of broken windows at Dem's offices, maybe you should look up 'kristalnacht' in wikipedia.
In any event, if representative democracy isn't what you want,
there are plenty of places where that annoying 'majority rule' isn't considered important.
Cheers,
Friday, March 26, 2010
To the angry right...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Truth Justice and....
Try this on for size...
The preamble to the Constitution of the United States:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Salient part for our purposes is "promote the general Welfare".
The Definition of the word 'welfare'...
[Free online Dictionary] Health, happiness, and good fortune; well-being.
[dictionary.com] the good fortune, health, happiness, prosperity, etc., of a person, group, or organization; well-being: to look after a child's welfare; the physical or moral welfare of society.
[Merriam-Webster] the state of doing well especially in respect to good fortune, happiness, well-being, or prosperity
The point?
Health care is, in fact, a right guaranteed by the US Constitution and, like racial equality, one that has been ignored or downplayed for the convenience of those who profit by the failure of our nation to enforce that right.
Of course, now that Health Care and Insurance Corporations are even MORE people than they were last week, you may expect to be commensurately LESS of a person come the next election. Personhood cannot be created nor destroyed...but it can be bought.
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