I awoke this morning, from a nightmare. In which I STILL had no healthcare, and conservatives and tea party members alike, often interchangeable in this political climate, were loudly celebrating across the streets and airwaves in America. Happy about the fact that, should I get sick..again, I would have to succumb to the last resort of many, the emergency room, and add yet another bill to my growing mountain of health, credit, and student loan debt that seems to have become the customary burden of millions of other Americans. Yes, solidarity. For I am not alone.
In this dream,there were calls of impeachment and resignation from President Obama,and upon the lips of every pundit, was the opinion that “America had spoken.” Forgotten, was the “start over” rhetoric. There would be no starting over. No rebuilding of a health care bill. The GOP regained the Senate that November,and everything returned to the status quo. Our guns and right to one God were still firmly intact.
For you see, this has ALWAYS been about more than healthcare. This is a clash of wills and ideologies. As we witnessed yesterday, when 2 African-American and 1 openly gay members of Congress were assailed with cries of “Faggot” and “Nigger,” by tea partiers before entering a speech given by the President, its never been JUST about health care.
As one of the members, a long time Civil’s Rights activist later said, “it brought him back to the 60s when he was still fighting to get off the back of the bus.”
The ushering in of our nation’s first Black President, did not open the door to a empowered, post racial America. Instead, we have seen that it has brought out the worst in many. Fear mongering and a gross misrepresentation of facts has labeled him as a commie/fascist, [though no one seems to be able to tell you the definition of either term, and the fact that the two have no correlation seems to matter not] illegal alien, [yes let's not forget that they don't believe he is an American either] who somehow usurped the Presidency of the United States.
His agenda has been attacked by all sides. He has been been cast as a modern day Hitler, the bringer of ill omens and economic disaster. The fact that the last administration straddled us with an unprecedented debt means nothing, all of our problems began the day that Obama took office. Oh yes, “LOGIC BE DAMNED! He’s going to take our guns! [How will we shoot up schools?] And he’s gonna let them darn gays shoot too! What’s next? Monkeys gettin hitched too?”
Yes. It has always been about more than the fight for health care. The millions who lack it, have been denied it, or are barely holding on to it be damned. the cries of these Americans has fallen on deaf ears, to those who resoundly oppose it. After all, it is hard to emphasize with those whom situations you have never been in. Yet they know best for us! Leave it to the corporations! Yes! Thank you GOP America! You know what is best for us.
It has always been about more than the fight for healthcare.
Our nation has always been reluctant for change. Many are quick to denounce the role of government in our lives, yet conveniently ignore the fact that our nation has often needed “Big Brother” in order to do the right thing. Who do you think ended slavery, ended interracial marriage bans, and integrated our school systems? That’s right, Big Brother. Yes, because Americans have repeatedly shown that in times of change, many simply cannot be trusted to do the right thing by ALL Americans.
Yes, this has always been about more than health care.
