tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post9006341731040358410..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Radically Speaking Twilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-64381073836614979212016-05-11T13:43:32.236-05:002016-05-11T13:43:32.236-05:00mike (again) ~ Ew!! That is SOME revelation! T...mike (again) ~ Ew!! That is SOME revelation! Thanks for the link. Bernie ought to make is more widely known by mentioning it in his campaign speeches. <br /><br />I'm still bog-eyed from reading my fellow-Brit Andrew Sullivan's l-o-n-g piece mainly about Trump/Trumpism. <br /><br />http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny-donald-trump.html# <br /><br />In the early paragraphs he makes some decent points, but he waffles on far too long and comes to the rather ridiculous conclusion that we actually need the elites to "save us from ourselves"...."us" of course being the peasantry tottering dangerously on several rungs beneath elites such as himself. :-/<br /><br />What pissed me off even more than that, though, is the fact that he mentions Bernie once in 7.500 words - and describes him as "a demagogue" - dearie me! Anyone less demagogue-like I find it hard to imagine, and anyone more full of himself than Andrew Sullivan I also find it hard to imagine. Dang!!<br /><br /> Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-60340959179541394632016-05-11T12:37:02.100-05:002016-05-11T12:37:02.100-05:00You said, "...even most of the better educate...You said, "...even most of the better educated, who ought to know better, seem to have an inbuilt horror of it."<br /><br />No...they're busily pushing their anti-socialism, pro-corporatism agenda:<br />https://theintercept.com/2016/05/11/lobbyists-dnc-2016-convention/mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-81573609525718695022016-05-11T10:04:33.248-05:002016-05-11T10:04:33.248-05:00mike ~ I did notice a couple of headlines about t...mike ~ I did notice a couple of headlines about the group of doctors supporting "single payer". It's encouraging to know that there's an undercurrent of discontent, even among the professional health care people. At present the entire system is so tightly rigged that such support will likely remain academic.<br /><br />Americans have been taught to abhor the word socialism. Sad and true - even most of the better educated, who ought to know better, seem to have an inbuilt horror of it.<br />McCarthy did it! Maybe the next generation will bring with it a necessary change of mindset. <br /><br />I'm not in favour of total socialism, but a balance of well-regulated capitalism and socialism. Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-68476963152894970142016-05-11T09:25:39.294-05:002016-05-11T09:25:39.294-05:00Last week while you were contemplating magic brown...Last week while you were contemplating magic brownies, a group of doctors announced their support of a single-payer health plan:<br />http://www.press.org/events/physicians-proposal-single-payer<br />Single-payer was Obama's original version of the Affordable Health Act, but the Republicans in congress insisted on maintaining the middle-men, private insurers (aka private insurance lobbyists doing their jobs). Of course, The Bern is pushing single-payer, too. Interesting case in Colorado, with their Amendment 69 for single-payer, and the enormous backlash from the private insurance industry:<br />https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/colorad-single-payer/<br /><br />Several of my neighbors are horrified by socialism and have made comments in the past about their abhorrence of socialized anything. They brought it up, so I usually take advantage and remind them that lil' Bush implemented one of the largest socialist programs in American history with his Republican, economic stimulus programs bailing-out the financial and auto industries. Too big to fail is not an option in a capitalistic society, but survival of the fittest is.<br /><br />There's also a problem when it comes to lil' Bush's "faith-based" charities program receiving federal dollars to support their programs. Not the best interpretation of separation of state and church. Socialism wearing the beard of religion.<br /><br />Socialism carries the same fear as public restrooms for transsexuals' usage. The horror!mikenoreply@blogger.com