re: #473 iceweasel

We’re the richest country on earth and we do provide the best health care— to those with the money to purchase it.
It’s insane that there are people in this country without health care, that people die because they don’t have it, that people suffer.
It’s insane that many people will argue that ‘no one in the US goes without health care’ or blame the uninsured for dying younger. That’s what we do though.

We’re a split personality. One half is a greedy fuck consuming porn and guzzling junk food and grabbing everything, “fuck you I got mine”.
The other half is Cotton Mather/jonathan Edwards/Calvin thundering at us that we’re sinners and deserve nothing and you’ll get nothing and like it! (Caddyshack ref)

Religion is the Opium of the masses. We have a lot of Opium. That is, we also have to take into consideration that we’re dealing with a massive population that believes in Santa Clause. The rest of this is easy as far as corporations manipulating the masses.