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Persecution Politics: Death Panels
by Genghis 8/11/2009 - 1:38 pm
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Credit where credit's due: Sarah Palin knows how to capture headlines. She also knows how to speak the language of America's most persecuted demographic: white Christian conservatives. Many in her audience believe in a secret plot by liberals to enact a radical secular agenda, and they view all progressive policies through the lens of this alleged conspiracy.
Sarah Palin on the health care plan:
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
For the unvarnished version Palin's ideas, complete with Nazi references, read the account offered by the "Christian Anti-Defamation Committee" (yes, it exists, and yes, it is insane):
Your grandmother will be told to make plans to end her life early because her care will be too costly. After all, it is her duty to not to be a burden. Obama explained they will "encourage the use of living wills" that terminate otherwise viable lives through "do not resuscitate" (DNR) legal releases. This is nothing less than state sponsored euthanasia. Hitler began his reign of terror by his application of the brutal, Darwinian ethic, “survival of the fittest.” He started killing the disabled and infirm because they were considered to be a burden on the state. Hitler rationalized the killing of innocent people in an effort to advance his fascist, national socialist agenda. In the name of doing what’s best for the good of society, Hitler trivialized human life. Ultimately millions ended up paying with their lives. In the name of the public good, Obama and the Congress are on the same anti-Christian, pro-death path...Not only will this bill end the lives of the elderly, it will expand and subsidize the killing of babies through abortion. The “Capps Amendment” nationalizes free abortions for low-income urban neighborhoods, fulfilling the dream of eugenicist Margaret Sanger that minority babies will be the first exterminated. This is a Planned Parenthood full employment dream come true.
Dagblog's Persecution Watch will keep a close eye on Sarah Palin, who has shown a flair for offering sugar-coated versions of right wing paranoia.
Wingnut trivia question: What does the Democratic health care plan have to do with "Season's Greetings" messages at department stores?
Answer: Wingnuts believe that both will lead to euthanasia and abortion-on-demand. Here's Bill O'Reilly on Christmas Under Siege:
What's really going on here is a well-organized movement to wipe out any display of organized religion from the public arena. The secular-progressive movement understands very well that it is organized religion, most specifically Christianity and Judaism, that stands in the way of gay marriage, partial birth abortion, legalized narcotics, euthanasia, and many other secular causes. If religion can be de-emphasized in the USA, a brave new progressive society can be achieved.
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No fair! Hillary supporters still hold claim to be the persecuted ones!
That said, how can these Death Squadders make the following intellectually inconsistent arguments:
If they are so concerned with making sure that the severely ill are not denied treatment or snuffed by the roving Death Squad because it is inhumane, how could they possibly justify denying people aqequate medical and preventive care?
By George, I believe that you've spotted an inconsistency in the previously rock-solid logic of the right! :)
Seriously, it's a good point.
Sugar-coated? Are you kidding? I'd call it barbed wire and arsenic coated.
Healthcare is not an infinite resource. There are a finite number of doctors, hospitals, etc. We as a society must determine the best and most efficient allocation of our health resources - and yes those are hard decisions that mean some folks will have to die.
Sorry, but mortality is one of those pre-existing conditions.
Some folks will have to die? I think they all will, Larry.