Reflections, Observations, and Analyses Pertaining to the Canadian Political Scene
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
American Contempt For Health-Care Protesters
Nothing says more about the American political establishment's attitude on health care than this video of the handicapped being manhandled and ejected during a protest at a Senate committee hearing yesterday:
I feel utterly alienated from America today. It has become such a deplorable nation, its democracy having been discarded for oligarchy and such a large segment of its population so readily embracing authoritarianism. It has become a nation severely debased from its presidency to its Congress to many of its statehouses where democracy has been suffocated by gerrymandering and even into a good many of its municipalities. We have lashed ourselves to this rotting barge for too long and it's shipping water so rapidly that we must find the means to cut ourselves loose and navigate our own course. I'm repulsed, nauseated at what we see from that country virtually every day. We have seen nations that pursued the same path in earlier times and nothing good comes of it. For a nation that takes such boastful pride in its revolutionary roots it's remarkably reticent of pursuing that remedy now when its so badly needed.
I have nothing to add to your lacerating assessment of contemporary America, Mound. It is a place I wish I had visited more earlier in my life, as I doubt I will ever step back into the country during the rest of my days, so little do I see any indications of a rebirth.
I feel utterly alienated from America today. It has become such a deplorable nation, its democracy having been discarded for oligarchy and such a large segment of its population so readily embracing authoritarianism. It has become a nation severely debased from its presidency to its Congress to many of its statehouses where democracy has been suffocated by gerrymandering and even into a good many of its municipalities. We have lashed ourselves to this rotting barge for too long and it's shipping water so rapidly that we must find the means to cut ourselves loose and navigate our own course. I'm repulsed, nauseated at what we see from that country virtually every day. We have seen nations that pursued the same path in earlier times and nothing good comes of it. For a nation that takes such boastful pride in its revolutionary roots it's remarkably reticent of pursuing that remedy now when its so badly needed.
ReplyDeleteI have nothing to add to your lacerating assessment of contemporary America, Mound. It is a place I wish I had visited more earlier in my life, as I doubt I will ever step back into the country during the rest of my days, so little do I see any indications of a rebirth.
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