emilynghiem
Constitutionalist / Universalist
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It's the propaganda. It's eroded their brains as sure as the water in Flint eroded the pipes.Christ on a cracker, Emily, there's no insurance plan in North America called Obamacare, so opting out is not an issue.
If you're talking about the ACA, then it too is not a single plan. It is instead an Act of Congress that forces health insurance companies to actually insure their customers.
Why would anyone not want their insurance company to insure them????
Dear rdean Grandma
So Constitutional beliefs that an Amendment should be voted on by States/People
before handing over this much power to federal govt
to regulate health care and personal finances is due to "propaganda"?
And is it "propaganda" to point out that the prochoice arguments
that federal govt should not penalize free choice of *something as risky as abortion*,
because protecting free choice is more important than any risks or damage potentially caused by abortion,
is totally being denied here in this case;
where the federal govt IS penalizing free choice of *something as harmless as whether to buy insurance*
and where "protecting free choice" is suddenly NOT that important or not seen as being violated at all.
Is that from "propaganda"?
If so rdean Grandma
is the opposition to these arguments equally from "propaganda"?
is the inability to see how any free choice is being compromised "due to propaganda"
Are you fair minded enough to see that if
"propaganda" is to blame for the adamancy of one side,
it's only fair to assume propaganda is to blame for the other
if they are BOTH equally unwilling, unable or refusing to understand
where the other is coming from.
I don't think it's from propaganda,
I think the problem is people on both sides have such DEEP ROOTED BELIEFS
it is biasing our ability to even see or understand the other viewpoint coming from a different CONTEXT.
We might as well be speaking French and Sanskrit and talking past each other.
Language differences are not due to "propaganda" but cultural conditioning.
The conditions on thinking from these different political beliefs are as deep or deeper
than for religious beliefs which at least people recognize and know to look out for.
With differences in political beliefs, there isn't that acceptance, but assumption
that the others are wrong, and the push to use govt and politics to attack and override the opposing
political beliefs. Much more hostile and a threat to equal rights, than religious beliefs that
more people understand should be kept out of govt so everyone can exercise those equally in private
without interfering with others. With political beliefs, we have outright religious wars going on to wipe out the other camp.