I have been watching video clips (like Michele Bachman's interview with Chris Matthews) How do Republicans talk like this? Such cognitive dissonance must be caused by drugs, a brain disorder or maybe something much more sinister (like the devil)? Republicans are God fearing people. Maybe I am evil? I fear Republicans more than God right now. People at McCain rallies have been making death threats against a sitting U.S. Senator and man running for President.
Oh, where has my nation gone? If McCain gets elected I fear for my freedom, my life and my family. All forfeit. My fears are rational. I am tired of the drunken monkey style tongue fu designed to distort people's emotions into a mob of violence. Few of us have Secret Service protection. None us can afford absolute security.
I can't get letters to editor printed even though the facts are with me. I fear my last few Daily Kos posts could get me jailed or killed one day. McCain spells the death of common sense. I got out of the policy silos and put the unhealthy facts together like nobody else has. Now in this "Obama is a terrorist atmosphere" how do you I think feel? Intimidated! You are Daily Kos reader are one of the few means of stopping the madness.
Our nation's health is tied to distribution of resources. To spread the wealth is anti-capitalist and anti-democratic talk but only if you assume the Republican ideology that capitalism is democratic. Capitalism is not democratic when the system has been rigged for the wealthiest and most powerful. We had a class war in America. The poor and middle class lost. Democracy is about making social choices about how to deal with consequences of private actions. America has not dealt with many needed things for many years and it is costing us, jobs, money, health, lives and freedom.
McCain thinks the idea of social policy being health policy is rather radical. I think his political usage of a woman's uterus is cruel, distorted and morally absolute. A woman's health or uterus is not a political football. McCain doesn't care about the health of the mother or her baby because health is broad inexact notion. Dr. McCain, I presume? Not! Try any religious title and one would be closer to McCain's thinking.
One can't argue with a moral absolutist because one can't change another person's values and beliefs. It is a matter of personal faith. As a person ages the more set in their ways they become. McCain has a fixed mind and it's diseased with his need to please.
Our society spends spend more on health and education than most industrialized nations and gets less in return. McCain wants to publicly spend less, privately spend more and see little in return. Accountablity is the watchword McCain should gamble if he talks about President Bush not America's teachers, children and future.
For me the word conservative means getting the most out of every tax dollar spent for the sake of society and one’s self. We spend more and get less. Under Bush we have liquidated more assets, collasped more infastructure, been more hostile to social networks (like unions and political organizations like ACORN) and harm people's health to make people than ever before for people who don't need the money and are more well off. As our nations problems get worse the benefits of existing in our society tickle down less and less to those who need healthy food, good shelter and the financial security of steady paycheck and well paying job the most.
We are in a state of panic, McCain is using people's emotions to pander for votes. Hence the big Wall Street bailout so our nation's troubles did not go more viral around the world and make things worse than our financial collaspe did. Nobody could see or do any better in the face of Wall Street's panic. No one sector of the economy can keep the others afloat. We must think anew, act anew and save our asses and planet Earth from an awful fate worse than extinction. When McCain says he will do everything to solve our nation's problems what he really means to throw crap up on the wall in the hope it politically sticks. It is a public relations ploy. The only thing his campaign has been throwing lately is terror, terror and more terror. It both angers and scares me. It should scare you too!