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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (115972)7/21/2009 10:46:09 AM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (2) of 541941
 
What a thoughtful, helpful article. I wish we could hear more of this kind of discussion instead of the scare stories the cable shows are throwing at us.

Yesterday I decided to try to catch up some on the debate issues and turned on Fox. There was a long, rather emotional segment on a Canadian woman who had to wait for months for back surgery, with the subtext of "is this REALLY what you want, America?". (She did say that simple problems were treated immediately and well, but the interviewer quickly returned to the issue of the surgery).
And there was flamboyant and constant use of the word "socialism" by the commentators. Fox is unapologetically anti-Dem in all ways now. Fair and balanced has become a joke. MSNBC is the same way on the left. Great if you want the bias. I guess the default is CNN, but really if you get your 'information' from any cable channel, you get nothing reliable, and certainly nothing that rises to the level of your article.

I wonder if the term socialism will continue to have the same impact on younger people, who won't have the same references we older people do, and may evaluate it differently. In which case, it won't have the scare impact any longer. Then the right will have to dig a little deeper for its arguments against some form of socialized medicine.
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