Letter to Those Touting Senseless Arguments Against Universal Health Care Reform

You're being lied to, hoodwinked and used. They've been playing on your fears and suppressed prejudices. You've been misinformed for too long, and you've become gullible, malleable, like literally-silly putty in their hands. You are the very vocal, public opponents to effective health care reform who do the dirty work for the men behind the curtain.

Among you with so-called arguments against health care reform are those who still hate everyone not white, who are reacting from a place of pent up fury over the fact that the great Unites States of America has a black man for its president, a Muslim in the congress, and a Hispanic woman on the supreme court. Among you are those who insistently promote and try to enforce upon us all your many and often twisted versions of a 'Christian' viewpoint, who work to instill 'Christian' beliefs into the policies of our free country. Among you are those who believe in varying conspiracy theories that all have one thing in common -their utter ridiculousness. Among you with so-call arguments against healthcare reform that turn out to be nothing more than lies are those who in the past have vehemently opposed integration, equal voting rights for blacks and equal pay for women, the separation of church and state, and -once upon a time- Medicare.

Now they have convinced the vast majority of you that Obama is a foreign born, America hating terrorist in disguise, and that the government is trying to take away your freedoms by providing effective, comprehensive health care reform. In their fight against health care reform, they have convinced you that immigrants are the reason our health care costs have risen, and that health care reform is just an entitlement program to benefit lazy minorities. In their fight against health care reform, they have convinced you that the protection of the greedy machine of corporate health care insurance providers who make their obscene profits off of the business of denying needed care to sick Americans is the only way to protect our free-market society, and that elected officials are conspiring against all reason and logic to kill the collective grandma of their constituents.

They have pretended the facts don't exist. They have touted free-market innovation in their fight against health care reform, ignoring the fact that the mass of medical research is funded by the government. They have married themselves to the free-market interests of huge insurance corporations, while avoiding the fact that small businesses, Mom and Pop businesses, main street USA businesses, can not afford to stay in business and provide affordable health care to their employees at the same time. They never mention that with the healthcare costs these days, would-be small business owners are too afraid to leave their corporate jobs and venture out on their own, because that would mean losing their existing employment subsidized health insurance, which may be irreplaceable at the whims of insurers, or only so prohibitively expensive as to make it impossible to afford. Instead they protect a system that thwarts free-market enterprise and innovation, and in their fight against health care reform they have fooled you into protecting that system as well.


They have hailed our health care insurance system as the best in the world. They have told you that the whole world comes to America for their health care needs, and kept from you the truth that many affluent Americans go elsewhere to have their medical needs met, because it is just as good and up to 90% less expensive. They have pretended that there isn't a mass migration of Americans into Mexico and Canada where there are government plans that don't bankrupt their retirement savings.

They never mention in their fight against health care reform the doubling of insurance premiums over the last nine years, or the fact that every thirty seconds another American goes bankrupt due to high medical costs -most of whom had health insurance, or that over 1300 people die unnecessarily every single day in America due to a chronic lack of health care insurance.

They distract you from the truths about the inadequacies and greed guided policies of the health insurance corporations with lies about government plans for death panels and rationing, pretending that insurance corporations aren't doing exactly what they claim the government will. They distract you with news media's focus on the ranting minority at town hall meetings, with nay saying political figures who are either in the pockets of insurance corporations or who otherwise make their very comfortable livings from being divisively partisan figures.

In their fight against health care reform, they have shouted and cursed and spit on TV falseness, brazen lies and infuriatingly hypocritical propaganda to instill into your gullible minds an urgency to fight back against a tyranny that is only a mirrored reflection of themselves. And you! You bring your guns and your ‘Obama is a Nazi’ signs and you shout and curse and spit as well, stooping down to the level of your false leaders in spreading more fear and hatred and lies, shaming our country before the entire world with your incredible naivety and outright ignorance.

Who are you? You are the right wing minority, the religiously extreme, the fearful elders who actually are dumb enough to believe that the Republican party who has spent the last 45 years fighting Medicare actually cares about you. You're the conspiracy believers, the spreaders of fear and hate and ignorance. You're the ill mannered, uneducated, intolerant minority who we have tolerated for far too long.

Who are your leaders, who is your god, who is it that you truly follow? The wizards behind the curtain, the puppet masters and mass manipulators are your guides. They are the insurance industry executives and major shareholders, fighting against health care reform that will end their outrageous profit chasing tyranny of America. They stuff money into the pockets of their fellow conspirators, the right-wing party leaders, who have sat back and done nothing for years, blocking every attempt of those in government who tried to serve the people of this country. Together these wizards you rely on have instigated you with lies and fear and mobilized you into a mass hysteria with the urgent message that they must regain total power in order to defeat the dirty liberals and their evil minded plan to turn America into a socialist communist country!

They are the stuffy, old, close-minded white men who have long failed to grasp the meaning of progress, who have long strived to stifle the progressive call for equality, for humanity, for creativity in new ideas and solutions to lead our nation securely and successfully into the ever changing future. They are the greedy corporatists and the ideologically retarded who have long since learned how to use your beliefs, fears and prejudices as a tool of control and a route to power.

And they’re using you now, their dupes, to once again preserve the status quo that doesn't really benefit anyone but themselves. No, it doesn't even benefit you. You'll be dumped with pretty words as always when they're done with you. You're just a sadly eager tool in their hands. They've nurtured every dark thing within you for years now to attain their goals, and in return done nothing for you other than to fill you with a comforting but false sense of self-righteousness. They've warped your very souls, and you've let them.

Take a good, hard, honest look at your leaders, your co-'patriots', and an even more honest look at yourself. You guys aren't saving the republic, you're just embarrassing the country.

Sincerely,
The No Longer Silent Majority