“But then Ocasio-Cortez spoke, followed by Bush, and I saw something
truly terrifying. I saw just how easy it would be, were I less involved
and less certain of our nation’s founding and its history, to fall for
the populist lines they were shouting from that stage.
I saw how easy it would be, as a parent, to accept the idea that my children deserve healthcare and education.
I
saw how easy it would be, as someone who has struggled to make ends
meet, to accept the idea that a “living wage” was a human right.
Above
all, I saw how easy it would be to accept the notion that it was the
government’s job to make sure that those things were provided.”
You guys, the Daily Caller just published the funniest thing I have ever read in my entire life. It is literally an article where a conservative is just terrified to death that they nearly felt empathy and love.
This article is like the biggest proof I have ever read that conservatives are just pathologically afraid of kindness.
There’s… not even a punchline. Like, the article concludes just a few lines after the quoted section, with no suggestion for why anyone SHOULDN’T support things like universal healthcare. Not even a token “but, you know, the money,” or “but you have to EARN it.” It just ends.
I guess the audience is expected to fill in the blanks? Like “gosh, I almost cared about an unrelated human being, but CLEARLY the very concept is absurd.” Which is… pretty sad, honestly.
I’m telling you, at least according to this article, it is literally just terrifying to think that your kids deserve healthcare and education.
That’s literally it. There isn’t anything else.
“I saw how easy it would be, as a parent, to accept the idea that my children deserve healthcare and education“ is one fucking hell of a sentence, really.
For fuck’s sake, she isn’t saying she’s terrified of feeling empathy. Every normal human being feels empathy! Where we differ is on how to solve the problems that are the source of that empathy. Your kid is sick? I empathize with you. But you are not entitled to a doctor’s labor for free. That’s a little thing called slavery. Forced labor for no pay? That’s slavery, plain and simple.
I don’t understand people’s intense desire to live off of the government and rely on them for everything. Why would you not want to be in control of your own life? Your own decisions? The more power you place in the hands of the government, the more say the government has in your day-to-day life. The more cases like Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans we have.
Healthcare and education are not human rights. You don’t have the right to force a teacher or a doctor to work for you. What I would like to see is more privatization of those two fields. Take the government and the red tape bureaucracy out of the way and let the market do what it does naturally.
I am a conservative libertarian, and I am one of the most empathetic people I know. But you’d never know, because to you, I’m a terrifying, unfeeling monster who wants your kids to die.
The privatization of healthcare and education would not get rid of red tape – it would add miles of it. I don’t understand how people think privatization makes things simpler or less bureaucratic. It does exactly the opposite thing. This is so true and David Graeber, anthropologist at the London School of Economics, calls this the Iron Law of Liberalism:
“Any market reform, government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations, the total amount of paperwork, and the total number of bureaucrats the government employs.”
Bureaucracy and red tape has skyrocketed since Reagan, and it has only gotten worse and worse as more people try and “privatize” things to reduce it.
Government-operated healthcare and education is not “the end goal,” (anarcho-communism is), but it is literally the only thing that makes sense in a capitalist system. Everything else is resigning hundreds of thousands to death or ignorance, and bogging down millions more with bureaucratic nightmare after bureaucratic nightmare.
Sidenote, seen as this asshole cares so much:
Charlie Gard had mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, a disease which usually kills in infancy. Even with the best care in the world (such as the offered medical help at Bambino Gesú), he would never have recovered.
Even transporting him could have killed him. If he had been released he would have suffered more, not less, only to die anyway.
After ventilation was removed, he never showed distress, never regained conciousness, and died 5 days later. He did not suffer.
Alfie Evans had a similar disease that made him struggle to convert food to energy, and meant that he stopped developing mentally due to that fact – at just 8 weeks old, his brain was already dying. This was further complicated by seizures.
After one of those, he lost conciousness and never regained it, nor showed any improvement over an entire YEAR.
By the time ventilation was removed, he could not see, hear, touch, or smell. The brain damage was still continuing. With the best care in the world, he would never have improved. Brain tissue cannot be regenerated at that volume, and even if it could, his disease is incurable.
Alfie Evans did not suffer.
You say you care about chronically ill kids? maybe don’t use their deaths as a gotcha for socialised medicine that saves lives by the million, and definitely don’t brand doctors doing that vital work to be “killers”.
Also maybe read like a single article about them lmao.
Gay Hell 