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But I can tell already you have to listen to this. No. Really. This Tea Party event is going to make some scales drop from your eyes. I mean, as long as our knickers are twisted over the obscenity they dare call "healthcare", maybe we ought to put our heads on straight about Agenda 21... see how these puppies dovetail into our worst nightmare.
Don't be a partisan pinhead! Open yer ears. Open yer mind.
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40 minutes in.... Okay. I'm less enthusiastic about this. She's not covering Agenda 21 very well. She's talking about a lot of things I did not know, and I think it's still worth the listen, but her capitalist zeal is starting to wear on my nerves....
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She's got the Aaron Russo stuff pretty badly mangled, and so I can posit there's more that's mangled, but she's talking about stuff I've only been trained, like a seal, to disdain. Memes. From my youth.
I know almost nothing of the nitty gritty McCarthy Era anti-communist thing. Yet what I know, or think I know seems to be to be informed-enough on the matter to get in fights with people over it. I know absolutely nothing about John Birch and Lyndon LaRouche, except that their names hark instant derisive social signals whenever they are intoned.
I buck whenever people say the hippie movement was a psyop, or marketing gimmick, but where did my visceral rejection of these names come from when, honestly, I don't know Thing One about any of them? I even now suspect it's going to be more work than I want to do to find out the truth. I just have to remember not to let my knee bash me in the chin when I hear those names.
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The people in the Tea Party may not state it such that it's easy to bear, but they are more right than wrong on quite a lot. This "healthcare" travesty MUST be stopped. It's pure fascism. And even if the provisions for rural clinics manage to stay in, it's completely crap anyway. They build the clinics and pay the staff and patients get squat. Every time.
The Tea Party has not been wrong about the "death panels". They are speaking too bluntly for most, but not wrong. Just one example: Are you okay with them denying you cataract surgery because the actuarial tables say you've only got three years left with us?
My grandmother got cancer at 93. They wanted to operate. She told them to fuck off. And, do you want them dictating to you what kind of treatment you get for your illness? Take chemo or get no care? No coverage for "lifestyle diseases"? Are you nuts?
No more freaking out about answering the census because you're going to be in their database for anybody who's ever been to the doctor for anything.
This morning, before the grocery store and then home to bed, I was at the cafe down the road. It's a little bitty modular structure open from 6am to 2pm six days a week. The owner is the cook, waitress, busboy and dishwasher. Her cats purr at you on the front porch. She can't pay for health insurance. Is the government going to give it to her? Are they going to deem her solvent enough to fork over the annual premium? You know the answer to that question.
She can move to the city and get a job at Denny's.
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