The Inevitable Move to a Blog Post of a Political Nature OR Why People Need to Learn the Difference Between a Nazi and a Communist

It was inevitable. That means in literal terms unavoidable. It was ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN to happen that I would start writing blogs about political issues and stray from the everyday stuff. Although when you think about it (read: when I think about it), political issues ARE everyday stuff for most Americans. It's just the everyday stuff they're happy to let someone else deal with and then turn around and bitch about when it doesn't work out the way THEY would have chosen - if in fact their goddamn Senator or Congressperson had voted like they were elected to do.

Fine.

So here I am about to bitch about something that I've been bitching about to every person who would let me have a second's attention over the last few years of my life: the national healthcare crisis.

I am allowed to call it a crisis, because in fact, several tons of people die each year because they have little to no healthcare coverage. Another several hundred tons of people go into enormous amounts of debt as a result of another inevitable thing : sickness or injury.

Why, you might ask, don't these idiots who can't afford healthcare, and as a result of that oversight are so obviously inferior to you and me who do have the good God-given sense to pay for health insurance companies to pretend to cover our doomed asses realize that they just don't have the LUXURY of getting sick or injured? Or why don't they at least do it in such a way that obliges someone else to cover their healthcare costs?

We may never understand the answer to these and others of life's mysteries.

But there is another bigger underlying query which may soon rock all of humanity (that lives in the United States of America)...

When the government tries to step in and get their filthy little noses into a business that so obviously concerns them (a business that, if our government had any sense at all, they would have long since begun to regulate), do we call them Nazis or Communists?

The answer for many outraged voters who are about to continue getting the same level of health insurance coverage they received before is a resounding BOTH.

Yes. The government of the United States qualifies as both Nazi and Communist in their attempts to interfere in the long-standing tradition of allowing the health insurance industries to ass-rape people for years just so their claims can be denied when they most need coverage i.e. when a human being develops cancer or heart disease or get shot by stray bullets in the mean streets of Idaho.

Now Nazis, for those of you who are unaware of the distinction, are defined as people who subscribe to "a form of socialism featuring racism and expansionism and obedience to a strong leader," socialism being "any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy." Our great nation, as it turns out, is the exact opposite of a socialist system, because not only does the government not control the producing and distributing of goods, the producers and distributors of goods control the government through their various and sundry "charitable" contributions to campaigns and administrations. (The only source I'll cite here is freedictionary.com - thanks for the definitions).

Communists are described as supporters of "a system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people."

Apparently, the people who are so all-fired-up over the proposal for the eensiest little change in our health care system, which still allows for health insurance companies to get fat and happy for years to come, think that our government is both racist/power hungry for world domination AND eager for everyone to get equal shares of everything.

Makes sense to me.

Now I'm not asking a lot here. I do not think that our government is above rebuke, and certainly the people who are running it are not without fault. But in fairness, aren't we only serving to lower ourselves to an even baser level by name-calling? And if we are going to sink to that level, shouldn't we at least have a basic understanding of what we're saying before we go around turning ourselves into morons because we think that Nazis and Communists are the same thing? (They aren't - if you didn't catch that point).

What I will say is this: who is widely considered the most patriotic American actor today? The one without whom the free world would be instantly doomed on a weekly basis?

You guessed it: Kiefter Sutherland.

And none other than Kiefter Sutherland's grandfather, Tommy Douglas (also known as The Greatest Canadian), was instrumental in implementing what is today the biggest difference between the U.S. and Canada - the universal healthcare system.

Now at first Canadians weren't all that crazy about universal healthcare themselves. Especially the doctors. They were afraid that their pay would decrease as a result of government funded healthcare initiatives. They believed that less expensive foreign doctors would be imported in order to lower the cost of healthcare to the Canadian government thereby reducing the quality of healthcare provided to their patients. Lucky for us here in the good ol' U.S. of A., we don't have those silly problems, because we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that we're nowher near having to face those issues because our government is so quagmired in legal jargon and red tape that we'll never see the onset of universal healthcare for our citizens. At least not in our lifetime.