Looking Leftward

I’ve been reading stuff from the Left, regarding the Health Care Debate… It helps me understand their presuppositions, which helps me understand better how to counter their ideas… and it clarifies my own thinking so I can come up with better ideas to help bring freedom, choice and savings to the issue.

What most interests me are the falsehoods that the Left apparently believes. Here’s a letter from a woman of the Left:

There are so many lies and myths about national health care reform floating around. This is no accident. It is a deliberate campaign of misinformation. The e-mails are made to look like they come from concerned individuals, but in fact most of these originate in elite ad agency offices where young advertising execs are staying up late thinking of ways to convince you and me that healthcare reform is not in our best interest.

In fact, reform is not in the best interest of big insurance and drug companies who have hired these advertising wizards to do their dirty work. The bottom line is that if true health care reform comes to the US, these companies will finally have to compete for our business and their outrageous profits will be cut. They like the money they are making off of us and they will stop at nothing to keep things as they are. So it is up to us to get the real facts on health care reform and not just believe the lies.

This amazes me. She believes that drug and insurance companies, with the help of ad agencies, are behind the current uprising against health care reform, because they want to keep their ‘outrageous profits’. Or, since this letter is floating around the Internet (I got it from Facebook), perhaps ‘she’ is actually a young man working in the West Wing, helping the Obama administration get their message out. The letter writer claims to be an RN, so she assumes we accept her authority for what she goes on to say… a quick listing of the Democratic talking points is. She ends her letter this way:

If you are really against health care reform after knowing the facts, that is one thing. But if you are falling victim to the lies generated by the big insurance and drug companies and dispensed by their patsies like Sarah Palin, then that is a real shame. It is your patriotic duty to learn the truth and speak the truth about this important national issue. Don’t be fooled. It is too important. I could only begin to address the lies here.

This makes me believe that the author truly is a sincere Leftist… that attitude of ‘listen to Mommy, I’m the expert’ marks her.

Here’s another letter from the Left; this one is from Sojourners:

Two weeks ago, Sam* died suddenly. He was only 21 years old, strong and healthy, preparing for a life ministering to youth.
Cause of death: acute pancreatitis and previously undiagnosed diabetes.
Reason for death: no access to health care to treat the incredible pain in his stomach - until it was too late.
The bottom line: While angry protesters disrupt town hall meetings and national organizations spread fear-based lies, lives are lost.
It’s time for the truth to be told. Sojourners is working to encourage prayer, dialogue, and truth in political debates in our country. We need your help. Can you contribute $25, $50, or $100 to fund our efforts?
We’re working with several partner organizations to make sure that our Congress and nation know that faith leaders do not want to be misrepresented. They want a health-care system that is available and affordable for all.
The current health-care system leaves you and me just as vulnerable to lack of care as Sam was. Health-care reform is just as much an issue of justice, of preserving and celebrating life, as it is an issue of caring for the vulnerable.

Again, the Leftist who wrote this expects us to believe her story just because she’s telling us. Me, I’m appalled at the callousness of this story. If they know so much about “Sam” and his problems, why didn’t they raise money for his health care rather than wait for him to die so they could raise money for themselves?

Sam probably didn’t have time to do anything but die and allow Sojourners to capitalize on his death in a callous manner.

I hate to read too much into Sam’s plight, but how could our spending trillions of dollars on health care ever help a young man who didn’t go to the doctor when he should? No matter the expense? Stupidity can never be cured.

To sum up, the Left approaches this debate with an attitude that they are right and have the moral high ground. Therefore, they don’t have to prove anything. Just state the facts and point out the evils of the Right.

Their view of the Right seems to be that we are all greedy capitalists or moronic dupes. And once that bright, shiny future comes when we all have health care and the evil capitalists are making minimum wage working for the Left; Jesus, Mohammad and Buddha will all arrive to lead us to Nirvana.

Unfortunately for them, it’s the Right with all the guns… so far.