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Ted Kennedy
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Whoisjohngalt.com has what will obviously be viewed as a controversial post following Ted Kennedy's death. Controversy can be great, or it can back fire. People are certainly more likely to hear about it, but then they are also more likely to dismiss it. In this case I think the message is so important that it is worth shouting from rooftops in the face of any taboo.
So that is essentially what he has done. Pointing out what many of us know but do not really process. We know that someone like Ted Kennedy gets the best of the best in medical care. We know that he was advocating a plan under which we would not receive that care. We know that if that plan were in place, he would still continue to receive the best care, and we would die in our homes. We know this, but we don't really think about it.
Why do we accept this? How is it that we have allowed ourselves to be verbally castrated by methods such as political correctness, methods that take away our power as individuals. How is it that certain topics, not actual dangers to us but ideas, can cause our brains to run screaming in the other direction. Most people literally just shut down. Why? Really try, just for a moment, to think your way around the walls that have been placed in your mind by societal "rules" and answer that simple question.
If you're like me, you'll come to realize that there is no good reason. The same man who would fight in a bar over the silliest of things cowers in the face of political correctness without even knowing he has done so. Why? How did the system put our minds in such a place, and how much further do they intend to go?
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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One reason some praised him after his death or were likely overly diplomatic concerns... such as that he is part of a lineage of the past boston southern, irish catholics wanted to keep. Saying, 'southern irish catholics are someone'.
For instance, I have seen people in boston with shrines in their homes to the kennedys.
But there is something else, maybe, saying, "speak ill of the dead makes you a bad person"... despite what type of person they are. Why? Apparently, because it would be socially unacceptable. So, therefore, it would be bad.
They imagine themselves saying such a thing and the condemnation they would receive from some circles. Therefore, it is "bad" in all circles, and maybe even to think.
Or, maybe people want to praise bad, dead people like they do to somehow play pretend that they will be okay after death even if they live a fake life spent constantly pleasing others and holding all pretentiousness to being right. Based on societal approval -- or rather their small group approval. (Because these same people might point out they have opponents, condemnation, or even persecution merely because they have enemy groups.)
For a democrat to even consider these criticisms on health care would mean to consider that which would likely be highly socially unacceptable within their group. (I mean herd.)
Dangers of this mostly are you could lose your well brought friends (by your constant doin and sayin the "right" things at extreme personal sacrifice to yourself)... and therefore [b]think you would lose your identity[/b].
Thankfully, they are not so likely to kill you nowadays (in the west). But they effectively do kill you when they throw you away without any hope of redemption because you dared say the wrong thing.
Or at least kill your identity by removing your card to their approval. This would mean all of your past hard worked for praise would go in the dumper. And that is what you call "you".
So, I suppose, people replace the "you" with an actual membership card in some group. Which is sad.
Because should we not be beyond any contemporary group or even idea we may embrace at any one time? Is it not killing one's own self to make one's self equal to what others want you to be?
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