Welcome to ObamaCare! Please, no stabbing, Mark Morford
Did you see? Just last week? The boisterous waving of signs, the cheering in the streets, humans actually yelling and stomping their feet in celebration of the Supreme Court’s narrow, pinched decision over exhausted ol’ health care reform, some celebrants literally weeping aloud that their sick child or cancer-stricken relative will now able to receive a small amount of basic care without bankruptcy or foreclosure or doom? Amazing.
If you saw that, you probably also noticed the furious, ragtag army of deeply confused others, holding up hateful signs bashing illegal immigrants or displaying photos of dead fetuses, or perhaps a large, shamelessly racist graphic of the president of the United States with a swastika around his face. America!
Can this be right? Is it actually 2012, we have been an extant and functional society for dozens or perhaps hundreds of years, and most of us still find it necessary and important to actually applaud such a fundamental move as health care for all, such a seemingly primitive, obvious shift that, by all basic humanitarian measures, should have been there since the advent of the goddamn light bulb, medicine, God? So it would appear.
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