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In reply to the discussion: United health care imploding... [View all]PatrickforB
(15,341 posts)Oh, we all know that 'Merica ain't nebber going to go sosh-a-list!
I mean, that is the propaganda the right wing has been spewing at us since Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine in 1987.
And this was done so the plan for the corporate takeover of the USA, penned by Nixon Supreme Court pick Lewis Powell in 1971 for the US Chamber of Commerce, could come to fruition with Project 2025. Ron Voght has clearly said to us, "The (billionaire/corporate/Wall Street) coup will be bloodless if the left lets it be."
Don't believe me? Here's the citation for the legal doctrine of shareholder primacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.#:~:text=Article-,Dodge%20v.,of%20his%20employees%20or%20customers.
Here's a link to the Powell Manifesto: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/the-lewis-powell-memo-a-corporate-blueprint-to-dominate-democracy/
So we die in parking lots if we can't pay while people in the rest of the advanced industrialized nations HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE. Why? Corporate tax cuts cuts cuts cuts since the days of Reagan. Massive increases in 'defense' spending. Right now individual taxpayers pay in over 80% of the Federal Government's tax revenue while corporations pay in around 9%.
So there you have it:
THIS WHOLE SHITSHOW WE ARE IN NOW IS THE BILLIONAIRES WINNING THE CLASS WAR AGAINST THE MIDDLE CLASS THEIR ROBBER BARON PREDECESSORS BEGAN BACK IN 1935 WHEN THE NEW DEAL WAS ENACTED.
That's why, and that is why Trump's DOJ is seeking the death penalty for Mangione, who is, by the way, considered a hero by my nearly-forty-year-old son and his friends. I myself have over $10K in HEALTH CARE DEBT because of our shitty, profit-grasping, corporate money-sucking healthcare system in this country.
And, no, I still have not forgiven the Democrats of 2009 for not using the fucking bully pulpit then to shift the Overton Window like Bernie did in 2016. This is also why I am not donating to most Dems except a select few.
And don't anyone have the temerity to preach at me about this because grass roots people like you and I donated OVER A BILLION DOLLARS to Harris in 2024 and 65 billionaire parasites MATCHED us. Who profited? Fucking Wall Street hedge fund managers and shareholders of the publicly traded 'media' companies.
It's pretty fucked up.