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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Alighieri who wrote (15856)4/1/2010 8:04:18 AM
From: Lane32 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Me: Or you could look at is us not having what we should because liberals proposed what we have.

You: Liberals would have us in single payer my friend, if not for republican filibusters and a couple of conservative democrats.

You miss my point, either intentionally or otherwise.

You have a point of view and your point of view apparently is that single payer is what we SHOULD have. Yes, conservatives got in the way, obviously. But for those who find single payer to be anathema, it was the liberals who wanted single payer and who ended up proposing what we ended up with were what stood between us and what we SHOULD have.

"Should" is a judgment that depends on perspective. You're treating your sense of what we should have as though it were an absolute value and it isn't. If one is completely consumed by one's own view, the wiring calcifies and one becomes unwilling and/or unable to see that his views are only absolutes in the context of his own view.

I don't have much patience with this polarization, even less since it has acquired so much hostility. If we cannot even acknowledge that our views are not absolutes let alone recognize that having a different view doesn't make someone a demon we are doomed. We can't even make a good faith effort to see how someone else might look at it differently. I recognize how hard it is to walk in the other guy's moccasins even when you try, as I do. It's made harder because the other guy cannot convey his view in an understandable way if he cannot detach from his framework enough to consider how to explain it in a way that will resonate with someone not in his camp. And if he's unable or unwilling to recognize an attempt at analysis and mutual understanding but rather treats every overture as opposition even when it's not.

The first step is being willing to try... Without that, we are relegated to just keep screaming past each other.

End of rant. <g>
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