There are so many moving parts in the monstrosity that is the US healthcare system besides the healthcare companies. Anyone who lays all blame at the feet of healthcare companies is missing the forest for the trees.
Ive come back and read your whole post a handful of times but Im just so struck by the ending. Now I may be wrong, and trust me when I say I have been wrong before and I will be wrong again.
Near my desk I have a framed copy of Chicagos "Daily Blade" from the date July 4th 1914, It was the first paper in the states to report on the assassination of the archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip
. That single action lead to the toppling of the Austo-Hungrian Empire, The German Empire and the Russian Empire, all gone in 4 years.
These great states were thousands of years old in some cases, yet you think a 1, admittedly large, yet still fraction of a merely 250 year old experiment in nationbuilding is so insurmountable? Perhaps its not as simple as 1 man this time but it may still be to early to say, just as the Chinese premier Zhou Enlai said in 1972 when asked about the Impact of the French Revolution he replied "Its too early to say"
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and if you will suffer me 1 more quote
"See the world as it can be, not as it is"
-Ghandi
That dosent mean in anyway to worship these people or emulate their actions in anyway, it means to learn from what their lessons in history teach us, that small actions can have very large effects and if we translate that ideology into healthy, community oriented outreach and support, working to help each other and build specalized skills within your area to help your neighbors not feel beholden to facless entitys for absolout necessitys we could rely alot less on things like "healthcare companies" in the first place like humans did for 2 million years
the answer is not to claw or scrape or fight or shoot our way out of any of this depsite what the YA novels will tell you, this will be a war won in every community garden, every special skill learned to help others, every act of charity and kindness not every expecting to be repaid and no it wont be easy or fun or pleasent, it will cost much time money and effort for very little appreciation or return in our time but society grows great when old men plant tress whose shade they will never sit beneath.
There wont be great battles, or epic last stands, or powerful songs written in memory of noble sacrifice, it will be a gruling uphill slog that feels gay and unhelpful the whole way. It will be won in the moments we can see the people we have reasons not to trust or even those we tell ourselves we hate and we chose to find a way to see them as the man or people they could be and not as they are, just as one person or another did for ALL OF US at atleast one point in each of our lifetimes.
Its a war of morals and values, does winning matter at all if we had to sink to our enemys level to best them? Its not nearly as rehtorical as it seems, that shall not kill is great until people are being thrown into Gas Chambers and no lightning bolts from the sky come to stop it. I intentionally am muddying the waters of my own point to show you how there is no easy awnser here, thats why its to hard, thats the duality of free will. IS what im saying ironclad fact? fuck no its one mans opinion and a crackpot of one at that but its real, it may not be 100% accurate in its particulars but what im speaking to is real, there is no "lightning bolts" coming from the sky to save us but by that same token none of the man made constructs are "divinely appointed" meaning our problems are man made so they can be mastered and solved by us aswell without throwing our hands up at the machinations of capitalism autists minmaxing economic disparity.
They fucked us over without any revolution, we can unfuck ourselves without one.
Sorry for sperg wall post, guess im on my lefty shit
