Got this ad promoted in my timeline, but I don't understand it. Is their whole argument just the word "socialized"? Socialized medicine is a good thing! Why would anyone want poor people to be sick? Illness spreads and infections don't discriminate based on wealth.https://twitter.com/SayNo2SocialMed/status/1174040386744066048 …
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The rhetoric is something that continues to baffle me as a Brit in the US. The attitudes seem so uncivilised. You'd think for a country so obsessed with power of market labour, that they'd understand a healthy population is more valuable than an unhealthy one.
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Same! I mean I believe that people deserve healthcare because of their intrinsic humanity and the sacred value of life, but even if you are selfish about it ... motivated self-interest should make you want it too!
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Those ads funders are probably the same who think that vaccinations are evil.
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The Boomer generation, esp, but conservative Americans have a phobia about socialized anything. They only think things will be worse, not better, based on some propagandized version of what Soviet-occupied areas might have been like. Also, (1/?)
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(2/?) A lot of Americans are fundamentally a self-serving, self-absorbed lot who reckon that they they shouldn't have to pay for anything. The idea that their tax $$ would pay for other people to have treatment and care is anathema to them. They don't...
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(3/?) believe they'll get sick or need care because of some twisted idea that if they do all the "right" things, bad health, poverty, etc. will never come to them. They think that because they're privileged, they are fundamentally better people for whom nothing can go wrong.
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(4/?) This type of American has a fundamental disdain for intelligence, science, and modern medicine because ignorance and what's labelled as "common sense" is prized above all else. It is, in a word, depressing.
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