The willing suspension of disbelief that allows "for profit" healthcare to persist and papers over the simple fact that 100% of EVERY DOLLAR SPENT ON ADMINISTRATION AND CORPORAQTE PROFITS is taken FROM the healthcare and ADDED to the costs of the patients is fucking insanity.
Its just one of many examples of the fictious world we live in, one where Trump' slies go unchallenged and are repeated so frequently that many people actually believe them. We are literally having 24 hours of hate (instead of the Orwellian two minutes of hate) on Fox News and the right wing blogs and "man-o-sphere".
We have universities being offered (and in some instances TAKING) hush money to shut up and report what they are told and study what they are allowed by oligoarchs and monied interests.
We have a housing cost crisis (and rent crisis) at the same time we have record ownership of residential propoerties by private equity entities.
We have a con-man in the OVal Office who is trying to steal everything he can't knock down or destroy.
We have Congress doing NOTHING. Literally NOTHING.
We have the Supreme Court happily destroying the separation of powers and cutting out co-equal from the non-Executive branches of the government, including themselves.
I can't take this nonsense.
I can't believe that so many CAN.
In the end, if this is the status and path of this country, it is a better thing to see it totally collapse, a bloody war fought in the aftermath, and the formation of a 2nd American Republic (on as much contiguous land as can be managed).
Maybe next time we can strengthen the guardrails BEFORE a lunatic arrives to intnetionally drive into every single one of them at the same time... Maybe...
Maybe we can fix certain things - like allowing $$$ to be called speech, or human beings to be called illegal.... Maybe...
Maybe I'll live to see the other side of this and help in the building of something better, more robust, more perfect union...
I doubt it.
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