Chat with an old acquaintance about Health Care...he's pod-people now

[DaveinJapan]

So I've known this guy since college, nice guy, but anyway he started a "let's talk politics" thing on Facebook and I lamented the fact that quality, affordable health care has apparently gone down the drain (I also mentioned the fact that Rahm Emanuel seems to be a guy who's always going after the more progressive folks in his own party in order to please the Centrists)...his reply:

"Dave- his unsuccessful jam of the health care bill was not due to his lack of left wing principle. In fact, quite the opposite- his positions and style of politics are so left that he started the battle in his own party which created the delays. That beast of a health care bill is a rotten, communistic, piece of special interest serving garbage which is unconstitutional and un-American.

Rahm Emanuel? Centrist?? Huh?? "Never let a good crisis go to waste." Rahm Emanuel? That guy is a poster-boy progressive; lie, cheat and steal all the way. He comes off more left than the President does; the President is more shady about it and keeps it behind closed doors (mostly, accept for that dreadful State of the Union address).

Universal health care is the open door for full-blown socialism and the edge of communism. Not only would it change our constitution (which is why they want to push it through), but it would render all of our foundational republican principles obsolete and lost forever. We would cease to be the United States of America. We would be the new USSR- United Socialist States of America. Is that what you really want? :)"

*sigh*

After picking my jaw up off the floor and considering what to write (at first I was fired up for "full diatribe" mode, tearing into the whole torture/fascist/shredding the constitution meme that I consider closer to "destroying America" than affordable health care), I just left a simple note and I'll probably walk away...cause this is just making me insane. There are just so MANY of them!

My reply...

"Wow. That's a lot of right winger talking points right there.

I won't go bit by bit, except to say I think your facts are off on a good deal of it. And I need to mention that, living in Japan, me and my family have access to low cost, quality health care (yep, it's a socialist thing...BOO!), and so do millions of America. Yep, it's the "socialist" medicare plan and the government run veterans hospitals.

So if you really think that makes America become Russia, then you must realize that we're already there and have been for many decades. ;)"