You see what’s coming, but you won’t admit it to yourselves.
In this essay, I am going to talk about things. Things I wouldn’t dare to admit, even on Docudharma. Except, I guess, tonight.
We have just seen the defeat of forces that would have otherwise saved countless millions of lives, all lives in this country, on the precept in my view that some lives would be saved, but not all lives could be saved, because the ego of certain people might get in the way. People like Lieberman. People like Stupak, who believe it is more important to sacrifice lives on the principle of their oppressive mandate to demean and control, in this case, women — but it could have been anyone else. In other words, doing little on the basis that little is better than nothing.
But you forget the why nothing part. Let me say first that I don’t agree and don’t believe. All the lives could have been saved, but we chose not to, on the basis of a calculation based on political ego and miscalculation as to potential strength and resolve.
But I am not here to talk about that. You see, I don’t agree and don’t believe that any lives will be saved. I don’t think a single life will be saved on the basis of Health Insurance Bailout/ Reform, that could not otherwise have been saved by that person making the decision or decisions that the government is now going to force upon them.
If they save themselves, by buying junk insurance, for example, by government mandate, and by miracle of miracles, the insurance companies honor their contract, fulfill the mandate, and give those people, who believe even less than I do, a lease on life, it won’t be because you forced them to. That will be because you changed the PATTERN, you forced people to do what they would not otherwise do .. but it will not be you “saving” anyone. They will, then, have saved themselves, but not have saved the future. The pattern is set.
You, Democrats, succeeded. You will make young, healthy people buy insurance.. you will make them pay money to crooks, who may, if you cross your fingers and wish real hard, save them if they have to be saved.
This, then, is the pattern. The pattern of things to come.
What amazes me is how little people understand themselves. They don’t understand, and yet, at some level, they see. They see without even knowing they see.