Morons On Parade

The health care “debate” has long been lost in the Twilight Zone.  Part of the problem is that the Democratic Party has devolved; somewhere during the last sixty years, they lost their spines, and replaced them with some weak, jelly-like substance that quivers in delight at the utterance of such words as “compromise” and “bipartisan”.

The only thing that may possibly save any chance of a meaningful overhaul of health care in this country is the undeniable ass-hattery of President Obama’s opponents.  For example, let’s have a look at the march from this last weekend.  There are people who compare President Obama to both Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin (forget the fact that you cannot be both a Fascist and a Communist at the same time, or that all Obama wants to do is make sure people have access to those things that make them healthier, as opposed to say, oh, killing them in mass numbers).

Source:  New York Daily News

There are people who call Obama a “spoiled brat” (I’m willing to bet they weren’t saying that about former President George W. Bush, who probably can be accurately described as a spoiled brat).

Source:  New York Daily News

And then there are the geniuses who wear Confederate flag t-shirts and carry signs calling the President a liar.  Because only a real patriot wears the symbol used by 19th-century racist traitors.

Source:  Earthfirst.com

And these are the people with whom liberals and progressives are being asked to compromise.

You know, when a group of scientists get together to plan the next mission to Jupiter, they don’t ask moon landing deniers for their input.

These are people for whom any government-based change to the way Americans receive their health care is an anathema, who agreed with Ronald Reagan when he said that government doesn’t solve problems, it is the problem.  These are people who show up at their Democratic congressperson’s town meeting to shout about the deficit exploding with government-run health care but who never once appeared at their Republican congressperson’s town meetings to shout about the deficit exploding from the money spent on an illegal war of aggression against Iraq.  These are people who think that the President telling their children it’s a good idea to stay in school and become educated is indoctrinating them in socialism.  (Admittedly, for some of these people, education isn’t that important anyway.)  These are people who believe their God created the universe some 6000 years ago, despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary.

No, I don’t think I should have to compromise with these people at all, just as I wouldn’t seek to compromise with the Klan on racial issues, the Inquisition on secular law, or the Flat Earth Society on physical science.

Compromise?  Bite me.