- Remember that joke about how the Republican health plan was "Die quickly"? Ever suspect it wasn't really a joke? Southern Beale provides some evidence:
But after the laughs died down I remembered my November panic attacks about being old and fat and weak and I realized,
(Link to Alexandra Petri's Washington Post article transferred to this quote.) Did someone just mutter "Social Darwinism" out there?
Oh my god. Alexandra Petri is right. They are culling the herd.
And it’s not just Trump, it’s the entire Republican Party. It’s the entire ethos of conservatism: if you’re poor or weak or sick, get outta the way. You’re dragging the country down. You are dead weight on American greatness.
- Why wait until college? Shouldn't something that important be taught starting in first grade? (What's that you say? We have to preserve children's innocence? They shouldn't have to learn that everyone lies to them that early? What about Santa Claus? What about [*gasp*] advertising?)
- (Well, what about Santa Claus? Most children figure that out before they turn 10. It's adults who need to believe that their kids believe in Santa Claus. As for advertising, finding that sort of hyperbole credible is the mark of a fool, or someone who would take politicians at their word. Really, one can be open to new experiences and beauty and still distrust out-and-out untruths. But maybe Americans really can't handle the truth1.)
- (This also feeds into the demand, usually by con artists and swindlers and, generally, Persons Who Mean You Harm, that they be trusted. Not merely believed, but trusted. People don't like to hear this, but the correct answer to a wheedling "Don't you trust me?" is "NO." Preferably loudly enough to be heard a mile away.)
1 In your dreams, Charlie. Return to text.
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