I’m watching another Adam Curtis documentary and also reading the headlines. The documentary is “The Century of Self”. You can watch it on youtube, or download it for free from archive.org. The headlines are the same spooky, bizarre, crap as always. It’s kind of nice, because now instead of just shaking my head when I see people doing sick and twisted things (like comparing the option of public healthcare to Hitler) I have some idea of why they are doing this. Reassuring… sort of…
You can see the way the corporations, who have real interest in making sure that there is no public healthcare, have adopted a logo (the swastika) a spokesperson (Palin) and a product (death camps?). They’ve even got an army of salespeople brainwashed into thinking that free healthcare will kill their grandma.
Aw, forget it, I’ve been living outside the US long enough to have an open mind. I have used NHS healthcare and wasn’t sent to a death panel. I have no real interest in joining the debate, and I am freaked out by the right.
It is just amazing and sad that so many Americans are so insane.