The world is flat

And while we're at it, here are a few more doses of craziness to consider. "Murderers" and "criminals": Meteorologists face unprecedented harassment from conspiracy theorists. This isn't just in the U.S., but in Europe as well. Since climate change is actually a liberal hoax, when they report on extreme weather they must be making it up. "National weather services, meteorologists and climate communicators in countries from the US to Australia say they’re experiencing an increase in threats and abuse, often around accusations they are overstating, lying about or even controlling the weather." This article also mentions the chemtrails  absurdity.

Climate change denial and chemtrails go back a long way, basically since right wing politics in the U.S. and Europe went batshit crazy. They obviously didn't like the Affordable Care Act, but the reasons they said they didn't like it were hallucinatory. Remember Sarah Palin and "death panels"?

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society.'

That was a total fabrication, with no basis in reality, AKA a lie.  Obviously  Palin doesn't have the intelligence or imagination to make this up herself. She was probably inspired by former New York Lieutenant Governor and conservative activist Betsy McCaughey, who claimed that the ACA would mandate counseling sessions telling seniors how to "to do what’s in society’s best interest … and cut your life short." McCaughey is a much more inventive and prolific liar than Palin. The original version of the ACA provided for voluntary counseling about end of life care, including such issues as designating a health care proxy, advance directives, and hospice care. Nobody was ever to be required to obtain such counseling and the people who did could, of course, make their own choices. The linked Factcheck article goes on to list numerous other lies by Republicans about the bill.

You may also remember the "Tea Party," an Astroturf movement funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, that disrupted congressional candidates' town meetings in the 2012 election campaign screaming all of these lies, including the famous "Keep your government hands off my Medicare." In other words, these are people who need a glass navel to see. 

The question of end-of-life care, and the appropriateness of having insurers pay for services in situations physicians deem hopeless, is one well worth discussing. However, the ACA does not address it. While the Tea Partiers were dupes, the real reason the Koch brothers and Betsy McCaughey didn't like it is because it instituted some new taxes to pay for the Medicaid expansion and the premium subsidies on the insurance exchanges. Since these taxes fell exclusively on wealthy people, the Tea Partiers themselves were unaffected, which is likely why they were scarcely mentioned. 

It's good for there to be parties representing different value orientations, but what we have right now in the U.S. is the party of truth, and the party of falsehood. That is not good. See Tom the Dancing Bug.