On 1/15/2017 1:39 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 15.01.2017 um 20:26 schrieb Patrick Elliott:
>
>> What ever the press once aspired to, it has discovered, almost
>> universally, across the board, that fiction pays more than telling the
>> public they are actually wrong about what they believe. And.. when that
>> happens... how do you salvage it?
>
> Of course in a country where capitalism is the state religion, and where
> having any government-directed social traits in the society is perceived
> as socialism, socialism is perceived as synonymous with communism, and
> communism is perceived as identical with Stalinism, that concept
> obviously won't fly.
>
Yep. We have NPR, which isn't always sensible, and PBS, which doesn't 
carry much news, let alone anything else. Both have been lambasted as 
liberal havens, which is hardly a surprise, since, as one blogger has 
commented, "Reality has a liberal bias." lol But, they also fall prey to 
some of the same errors I mentioned with the printed press - support for 
ideas not due to being factual, but being both popular, and liberal. 
This might be correctable, again, if not for the fact that they are also 
constantly in a state of being threatened with, or in the process of, 
being attacked and defunded by the right wing.

And, you are definitely right about the capitalism as a religion thing. 
Stupid morons are trying to gut the ACA (Affordable Care Act), even as 
they try to repeal it, stating, "Government subsidies will ruin health 
care. What we need instead of even looser regulations on insurance 
companies, and fewer complications for them.", or some stupid BS like 
that. Because.. the fact that they are the ones refusing to work across 
state lines, constantly raising costs, refusing to provide coverage for 
things, and arguing against having to cover people, who *might* actually 
need the insurance (instead of just the ones that will pay into it and 
never/rarely use it), has nothing to do with why so many people are 
still without any, and even the people with it can't bloody afford 
doctor visits. Oh, no, as usually, according to the bloody idiots that, 
in one case, actually used a picture from the Bioshock game's fictional, 
hyper-libertarian, propaganda on their own political website (while 
totally failing to recognize the irony, or nature of the game)- "The 
market will always fix things, if you just let it do what ever the F it 
wants, and everyone gets out of the way."

But, there is a backlash already. One ass had to sneak out of a town 
hall meeting early, due to the 150 completely hostile people that showed 
up, demanding to know how the frak they would keep their insurance, 
given their individual situations, if they gut, and never replace, all 
the provisions that specifically exist to make sure they can currently 
get it at all, like the one for pre-existing conditions. lol

-- 
Commander Vimes: "You take a bunch of people who don't seem any 
different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get 
this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem."

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