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One Enormous Reason The U.S. Is Still Miles Behind Other Countries (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Apr 2012
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RC
(25,592 posts)1. This should be on billboards.
Demonstrations at Republican fund raisers.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)2. K&R
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)3. K & R for later.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)4. We believe we're too busy hating/blaming the Other (races/genders/sexual preferences/politics)....
We're divided and conquered.
pampango
(24,692 posts)11. Ain't "us vs them" (a variant of "divide and conquer") politics just grand?
Got to give the GOP credit. They promote fear/hate politics for a reason - and it has worked.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)5. K&R
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)6. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, Playinghardball.
KG
(28,752 posts)7. we needed a 'uniquely american' solution
shcrane71
(1,721 posts)8. kick
libodem
(19,288 posts)9. That is so correct
If you have a right to life you have a right to health care. We at the very least need health districts and centers for disease control. Even in private prison.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)10. When I asked on Yahoo Answers why we still don't have Universal Healthcare,
some wing nut said "our country believes in capitalism, not socialism". WTF kind of bullshit is that? We're the only industrialized nation without it for crying out loud!
xchrom
(108,903 posts)12. Spot on! Nt