Where Healthcare Went Wrong

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A good analysis by my favorite living intellectual (perhaps the last living intellectual) Camille Paglia, a woman after my own heart, (with a knife I'm sure).

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/08/12/town_halls/


With the Republican party leaderless and in backbiting disarray following its destruction by the ideologically incoherent George W. Bush, Democrats are apparently eager to join the hara-kiri brigade. What looked like smooth coasting to the 2010 election has now become a nail-biter. Both major parties have become a rats' nest of hypocrisy and incompetence. That, combined with our stratospheric, near-criminal indebtedness to China (which could destroy the dollar overnight), should raise signal flags. Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

What does either party stand for these days? Republican politicians, with their endless scandals, are hardly exemplars of traditional moral values. Nor have they generated new ideas for healthcare, except for medical savings accounts, which would be pathetically inadequate in a major crisis for anyone earning at or below a median income.

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" -- a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

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Kinda, Parker and her crowd eschewed political stuff, because, well in America when you do politics you have to mingle with common folk, then they would want to show up at the Algonquin, and well, that would never do.

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Funny how only super sophisticated people go for tribal music anymore.  We have a cult of Brazilian music going on at the Fillmore so I am at least vaguely familiar with this guys work.  And I forgot she is your homegirl living there in Philly.