I recall newspaper stories I used to read as a kid from time to time. These were reports from distant Pacific islands where a lone confused Japanese soldier would be found still manning his post in the Emperor's efforts to win World War II, many, many years after the surrender of 1945.
In like fashion a latter-day holdout is seen here executing the Bush administration's demogogic all-fear-all-the-time strategy. Instead of GIs, this holdout's enemy is reason, civility and us.
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Another way of looking at this is that those who have opposed this plan and this administration have been so "squelched" by the press that they feel they have to shout to be heard.
(Of course, then if you shout, then you get accused by the media of being organized by big business, being racist, being greedy, etc.)
RR:
You have me at a decided disadvantage. I don't know who you are, what work you do, whether you are male or female, and yet you know quite a bit about me.
Let me stipulate, without any corroborative evidence to back me up, that I do not guess you to be a racist. I would not ascribe a higher quotient of greed to you than to the average American.
If I were to engage in further speculation, perhaps I would conclude RR means registered Republican.
Regardless of my ongoing grassroots campaign to promote the need for health care reform in the U.S., and regardless of my featuring of hot sound bites backing up my position, I am, on balance, saddened by the current state of the media in the U.S.
The need for health care reform is real and it is, in my eyes, beyond dispute. As I mentioned recently, Michael Moore's movie "Sicko" was validated by Wendell Potter, a former CIGNA executive. "Sicko" focused on those U.S. citizens who have/had health insurance, not necessarily those who do not. The significance of that point of view is that, even though millions of Americans are nominally covered by insurance, they do not have as high a level of coverage as citizens of all other developed nations who offer universal health care AS A RIGHT OF CITIZENSHIP. And because of this lack, the citizens of this nation suffer.
The U.S. is by most measures the richest nation on Earth. We allocate (literally) ungodly sums to the military while letting the most basic needs of our citizens go begging.
Those who oppose a government role in health care have a heavy burden of proof when they seem to argue that the right to insurance company profits is inviolate while the right to universal health coverage is not.
I do not think ill of anyone who opposes me on this issue, but I most assuredly think they are wrong.
Rich Robinson
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