The 2-Belo <the2belo@msd.bigremovethislobe.ne.jp> wrote:
> We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that John W. has
> exploded. Flight director confirms that:

> The impression I get is that despite electing Obama, the United States is still
> a deeply conservative nation that is violently peanut-allergic to anything that

No, not really. But as Lenin said "you don't need the majority of the people;
you need the majority of the committed people".

> might be construed as being socialist or government-centric in nature, no matter
> what its merits might be.

Social security, Medicaire, government bail outs, etc, are all fairly
popular.

> I can't even mention one word of support for US health care overhaul on any
> online forum without being hysterically flamed for being a "sheep" or a
> "mindless lemming" who blindly supports the filthy lying Commie-leaning
> government. Most of the time they don't even want to debate the actual proposal.

Most of the time, they don't know what the proposal(s) actually is(are).

> It's startling how panicked everyone is getting about this. I honestly fear that
> at some point, due to this reactionary frenzy, someone will end up getting
> killed. (Don't scoff; America is a country where people can be violently killed
> while Christmas shopping.)

Happens every year.

Mike