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Originally Posted by Joe
Interesting that hard left democrats are pissed off because its not socialized medicine, and the right is pissed off because it is socialized medicine.
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It's not so much an either/or as it is a too much socialism vs. wanting more socialism. For the hard left, it was a chance for a big leap toward a socialist state instead of the slower, incremental shifting toward the Hobbesian Leviathan that has been occuring almost from the nation's beginning. The financial "crisis," the climate change conference, and the health care bill were massive opportunities to reinterpret/change the Constitution as granting positive powers to the State to
DO for us as a group rather than only being a list of prohibitions of what it
CANNOT DO against us as individuals, as well as opportunities to redistribute wealth from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
But,
incremental steps in a socialist direction have been taken. That's why there is displeasure on both sides.