I'm going to take a much needed break from Daily Kos for Christmas. The more I read about this whole health care "reform" nonsense from the people here supporting it, the more furious I get. Especially, at a time of the year when I should be full of holiday cheer and all that jazz. But I'd like to get my thoughts out one last time about how, as my title says, the progressives in this country seem ready to follow the Democratic Party off a cliff.
What really set me off was the suggestion that people with jobs, people with good health insurance, are being selfish because, in so many words, we got ours, so f**k everyone else. I'm apparently suppose to be happy that I get to see my good...well decent...insurance taxed away in the next few years, leaving me with junk insurance instead.
And for what? To increase the bottom line for Blue Cross/Blue Shield in the guise of helping the working poor? If the government wants to expand Medicaid, I got no problem with that, but hidden within this feel good bulls**t about helping the poor are taxes and mandates that are designed to destroy what is left of the middle class in this country.
The Republicans are going to campaign hard in 2010 and 2012 against this legislation. And you know what? They'll be right to do so. According to the recent polls on this disaster called health care reform, the majority of the country will be siding with the Republicans.
I thought I voted for progressives in 2004, 2006, and 2008, but apparently I got closet fascists. I'm sick of buying the line that Democrats are better than Republicans. Sorry that dog don't hunt for me no more. I'm hoping some of you will wake up when social security gets put on the auction block in a few years.
It seems clear to me now that the Democrats and Republicans are trying to keep the country divided into warring factions so we don't realize who the real enemy is. No, not the conservatives. The government-industrial complex working everyday to turn Americans into a bunch of peasants.
Enjoy your bread and circuses.
Update
To the people that wanted to know about the "Cadillac" tax:
http://airamerica.com/...
If you get group insurance from your employeer, your plan will likely get hit with this tax. If not now, then in the next few years as premiums increase (remember they are still going to double in 10 years).