Best question from Tuesday's town hall

12 Wednesday Aug 2009

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Will illegal immigrants get to take their govt. health care back to their own countries?

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Michael Bersin said:

August 12, 2009 at 4:17 pm

…the angry crowd loved it. I’m wondering if they believe it’ll be in the bill?

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MrJM said:

August 12, 2009 at 4:40 pm

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WillyK said:

August 12, 2009 at 5:07 pm

The hostility goes back to what I was pondering in my Sunday essay: that the aggressive, furious attempts to even shut down the possibility of a political discussion is reminiscent of the anti-desegregation movement, a point that becomes noteworthy when you aggregate the motives of the “birthers”, who loudly deny Obama’s citizenship, the “teabaggers”, who loudly declare that the same taxes they paid under Bush are tyrannical under Obama, the “deathers”, who loudly assert that healthcare reform is secret plot to euthanize seniors and others that the government deems unproductive. None of these positions makes a lick of sense or has any evidence to back it up, but in large part it is the same group of hard-right, almost entirely white conservatives that believes all three at once. If you believe the shouters themselves, in their own words, the healthcare debate isn’t about healthcare but about a conspiratorial government and the end of the Republic.
This is, by definition, a far-right position, and less charitably a batshit insane one, and that it has managed to make it so far and be featured so prominently is testament to just how completely the farthest of the far right has captured the Republican party.

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