"Rugged individualists" insist on "impossibly pure principles" because the intrinsic unworkability of these "too pure principles" exempts them from any participation in government-coordinated "structural solutions" that actually "get the job done."
They cling to "the theory" to avoid "the practice."
Some facts are plain as potatoes.
1.) Social Security ended widespread poverty among senior citizens.
2.) Medicare, followed by Medicaid and now Obamacare are progressively moving us from 50% citizen health coverage to 95% in 2020.
This change is real and would never have happened if American "Christians" continued to jerk off over their impossible principles.
Anyone who proposes we revert to the uninsured rate of 50% that obtained in the year of my birth, claiming that "individuals" and "churches" will provide healthcare
--- "because Jesus says so" ---
will be reviled personally and repudiated politically.
The Catholic Church operates the largest healthcare system outside America's private and government sectors. And notably, Catholic healthcare officials are clamorously clear that they CAN NOT get the job done without massive government aid.
"What The Catholic Church Teaches On Healthcare Reform"
by renowned Notre Dame theologian, Fr. Richard O'Brien
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Hermetically sealed conservative selfishness is most notable in The Bible Belt.
"Red State Moocher Links"
The Bible Belt is so shameless that it gripes about taxes more than any other part of the nation, then extends its parasitic tentacles to seize a hugely disproportionate amount of those taxes.
In effect, the United States sponsors massive transfer payments from blue states to red.
Bible Belters are blind to this salient truth perhaps because they've been lying so long -- even to themselves and starting with "the righteousness of slavery -- that they no longer know what's real.
Having bubbled up and away with their absurd ideologies, they have literally lost touch.
"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: "It's a pound." Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating."
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See "Fuck The South!" at "Blue States Secede"
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