So criminal insurance corporations are "the best we can do now"

[mullard12ax7]

Sounds like learned helplessness from propagandized and dumbed-down corporate shills. The health insurance industry is corrupt to the core, it's a broken and ruined system of greed that results in death for millions and will go bankrupt.

It is not the best we can do, it's the worst we can do.

[leftstreet]

1. K&R

[FLAprogressive]

2. He never campaigned on the public option. The man said it himself.

:rofl:

[Goldstein1984]

3. The mandate is the ultimate insult

It's both the political and economic elite proving they can blatantly team against the people for their mutual benefit and the people's detriment.

[ThePhilosopher04]

4. Mandate is like forcing us to eat shit....

because we're starving...where do they find these people??!!!

[Goldstein1984]

5. Somehow we find them and elect them.

[Jim Sagle]

7. Actually their handlers groom them and then shove them down our throats.

[Goldstein1984]

8. Metaphorically, I think that's true

But they make us believe it's our decision. There was a post about a week ago from a marketing person who described how candidates and ideas are packaged for mass consumption, and in the end we only think we are acting of our own free will.

The way Bush/Cheney capitalized on 9/11 is a great example of manipulation.

I once made a comment in a political science class that, in the end, the politician with the best signs gets elected. The whole class shot me down. But I still believe it.

Look at the way the politicians and pundits were able to manipulate the teabaggers.

[noise]

6. There is an odd "circle the wagons" mentality

I'm not sure why. Why is it now considered acceptable to hold politicians to a pathetic standard of conduct?

There is also the annoying tendency of some to conflate right and left criticism. The left is calling for affordable, quality healthcare. The right isn't doing that. They support the insurance companies.

[ThomCat]

9. It is the best they will allow us to do

because it is the option that maximizes profits, kickbacks, contributions, and money flowing in every direction Out of our pockets. :(

[Blasphemer]

10. Yep... nt