Always amazes me that the RW idea of freedom for many almost completely revolves around the ability to own guns. Rather than the real freedom that would come with say, having a free national healthcare system, which would then literally free you up from having to stay in a shitty job just for the healthcare insurance, in which you die from the thousand paper cuts of paying a never-ending scam of deductibles and co-payments. There seems to be so little follow through in the thinking. It’s all tribal, fear-based brainwashing of an archetype the RW sells.
Again, it’s the conditioning of propaganda that makes someone feel he is “free” by owning guns, but cannot/will not see that he’d be a lot freer to go hunting or bbq with his friends if he didn’t have the albatross of dealing with the mind-numbing capitalist bureaucracy of dealing with and being pick-pocketed by insurance co middlemen, who are the real “death panels” the GOP propagandists so sinisterly turned around to hang on the modest and totally insufficient Obamacare.
George Bernard Shaw has an essay in a Woman’s Guide to Socialism basically about how if you can’t just do anything you want during the day, that is not tied to or contingent with your job, then you are not free.
Always amazes me that the RW idea of freedom for many almost completely revolves around the ability to own guns. Rather than the real freedom that would come with say, having a free national healthcare system, which would then literally free you up from having to stay in a shitty job just for the healthcare insurance, in which you die from the thousand paper cuts of paying a never-ending scam of deductibles and co-payments. There seems to be so little follow through in the thinking. It’s all tribal, fear-based brainwashing of an archetype the RW sells.
Again, it’s the conditioning of propaganda that makes someone feel he is “free” by owning guns, but cannot/will not see that he’d be a lot freer to go hunting or bbq with his friends if he didn’t have the albatross of dealing with the mind-numbing capitalist bureaucracy of dealing with and being pick-pocketed by insurance co middlemen, who are the real “death panels” the GOP propagandists so sinisterly turned around to hang on the modest and totally insufficient Obamacare.
George Bernard Shaw has an essay in a Woman’s Guide to Socialism basically about how if you can’t just do anything you want during the day, that is not tied to or contingent with your job, then you are not free.