Remember back in 2009 when the astroturf Tea Partiers were showing up at politicians' town halls to yell and scream about the impending government takeover of Medicare? Yeah, that happened.
President Obama at a town hall meeting last week described a letter he received from a Medicare recipient:
“I got a letter the other day from a woman. She said, ‘I don’t want government-run health care. I don’t want socialized medicine. And don’t touch my Medicare.’”
At a town hall meeting held by Rep. Robert Inglis (R-SC):
Someone reportedly told Inglis, “Keep your government hands off my Medicare.”
“I had to politely explain that, ‘Actually, sir, your health care is being provided by the government,’” Inglis told the Post. “But he wasn’t having any of it.”
“If you like the post office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they’re run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government.”
If I need to explain what's wrong with this concept, you need a glass navel to see. Anyway, comes now Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, a formerly non-crazy person, who tweeted the following:
Today’s Anniversary of Medicare & Medicaid reminds us to reflect on the critical role these programs have played to protect the healthcare of millions of families. To safeguard our future, we must reject Socialist healthcare schemes. https://t.co/mOdUuX7THT
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) July 30, 2021
Conservative=Idiot.
2 comments:
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.” So many people in the U.S. are shockingly ignorant. Moreover, this now applies to many representatives and senators. Ignorance seems to be reaching catastrophic levels.
I wonder if ignorance is exactly the word for it. One some level these people must know that Medicare and Social Security are federal programs. But they also have a module in their brains that says "government programs are bad." Since Medicare and Social Security are good, they resolve the dissonance by the No True Scotsman fallacy: Medicare and Social Security don't really count as government programs, because if they did, they would be bad. I know it's ridiculous but that's how the conservative mind works, i.e. very badly.
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