My column from yesterday about the super-stupidity of the "armed rebellion over healthcare" meme on the far-right.
It always manages to shock me what far-right conservatives perceive as tyrannical threats to the American way of life. I know I shouldn't be surprised anymore, but perhaps I inexplicably possess a lingering and futile trust in the rationality of humans, as well as our ability to separate right from wrong.
Yeah, I know. Waste of time. I should probably stop that, specifically regarding the far-right. They've so thoroughly lost their grip on basic reality and rational thought in lieu of rah-rah lock-step home team sports cheerleading, they've fallen well beyond the zero barrier of logic and slipped into mind-numbing ignorance and glaringly obvious contradictions.
So it stands to reason they'd consider affordable healthcare to be Soviet style trespass against American democracy and liberty -- to an extent that it justifies armed rebellion and civil war. CONTINUED HERE...