To believe in socialized medicine and socialized health insurance you must also believe ...
# You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.
# You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
# You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding American citizens are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and North Korean communists and Islamofascists such as Iranian theocrats and Taliban terrorists.
# You have to believe that there was no art before federal funding.
# You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical, documented changes in the earth's climate, and more affected by soccer moms driving SUVs and that the unusually cold winter of 2008-2009 should be attributed to global warming.
# You have to believe that gender roles are artificial, but being lesbian is natural.
# You have to be against capital punishment for criminals, even murderers, but support abortion on demand.
# You have to believe that businesses create oppression, and governments create prosperity. As a true Elitist Leftwing Liberal you have to believe that no Americans ever lost their jobs or became homeless except during the Reagan and Bush Administrations; these are problems that can be solved only by lotsa money and Liberals in the federal government.
# You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but loony activists who have never been outside of San Francisco do care about nature.
# You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
# You have to believe that the military, not politicians, start wars.
# You have to believe the NRA is bad, because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
# You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
# You have to believe that Lillian Hellman, Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than are Thomas Jefferson, General Robert E. Lee and Thomas Edison.
# You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas, preferential treatment and set-asides are not racist.
# You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal, and really a very nice person even though the electorate outside New York didn't think so.
# You have to believe that the only reason socialism and communism haven't worked anywhere it's been tried, is because the right people haven't been in charge. You must also vociferously deny the fact that "Nazi" is an abbreviation for Adolf Hitler's Nationalsozialist party, because Hitler makes socialism look bad, unlike humanitarian socialists like Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, Hugo Chavez and a host of other socialists who raped, tortured, maimed and slaughtered their own people in the name of "income redistribution" [ala Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Lyndon Johnson and Barack Hussein Obama], political and economic advancement for the "plight" of the downtrodden.
# You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a draft-dodging liar and sex offender belonged in the White House.
# You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag queens, genetalia, transvestites and bestiality as well as organizations such as NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) and other secular groups that promote pedophilia should be constitutionally protected, but symbols such as the Cross (Crucifix) the Star of David and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.
# You have to believe that illegal Democratic Party funding by the Chinese government is somehow in the best interests of the United States.
# When you don't understand your opponents' dialogue and/or are unable to refute their remarks, always claim comments are "divisive" even if you don't know the meaning of that word and "divide and conquer" is the leftwing modus operandi. You have to refuse to discuss the issues in a rational manner and whenever someone attempts to do so, throw a 3 ring tantrum, rant and rave, go into a lunatic rage and outshout them (preferably with profanity and name-calling) and stick to personal slurs, smear tactics, slander and building strawmen so you can knock down the strawmen (oops, sorry, strawpersons) and hopefully sidetrack the conversation away from your lack of ability to support your positions or refute the arguments of others. When you can't think of anything plausible to say, and name-calling and personal slurs are no longer working because people with IQs above ginger snaps can see right through such childish tactics, an especially effective prepubescent ploy that will at least convince other Elitist Leftwing Liberals, is to claim your adversaries hate America, or if you're on the cowardly side, indignantly ask them why they hate America even though it's obvious that its the Elitist Leftwing Liberals who hate America and Americans. Uncles Lenin and Stalin always urged us to accuse our adversaries of the very things we're trying to hide. It is the archetypal trait of the elitist leftwing liberals to camouflage confessions as accusations.... If you repeat this enough times, Elitist Leftwing Liberals will be offering awards - they may not be candy bars, but, you will be sure to win some snickers.
# You must always ignore the message and attack the messenger. When stuck, remember the tactic that won't reveal to other Elitist Leftwing Liberals your unwillingness to rebut the issue under discussion or your inability to think or say anything original: smugly change a couple of your adversaries' words, parrot and repeat their comments back to them verbatim and even if it isn't true, by all means always be sure to accuse your opponents of using the very tactics the Elitist Leftwing Liberals try to hide, remembering all the while that Unca Lenin would be proud as punch.
# No matter how credible a source may be - always do your Elitist Leftwing Liberal duty and rabidly claim it's been debunked and discredited and call anyone who believes it "mean spirited", crazy, a Nazi or any other of the secular monikers from the Elitist Leftwing Liberal grab bag of infantile epithets and sarcastic sobriquets even if you invented your "data" out of thin air or found it on the webpage of some Elitist Leftwing Liberal lemming on the lunatic fringe. See Article #27 for the suggested politically correct buzzwords to use in your tantrums.
# Whenever demonstrated facts don't agree with your agenda, twist them and mangle them until you can make them fit into your secular prejudices, the elitist Leftwing-Liberal mainstream media will assist you greatly.
# Once you've told a lie or slandered someone, be sure to repeat it as often as possible until it becomes true. "Members and front organizations must continually embarrass, discredit and degrade our critics. When obstructionists become too irritating, label them as fascist, or Nazi or anti-Semitic .... The association will, after enough repetition, become "fact" in the public mind." [ ~ Communist Party, Moscow Central Committee, 1943] and followed faithfully by the secularist, elitist American mainstream media lemmings in accordance with the precepts established for adherents to the code of conduct for Lenin's "Useful Idiots".
# You have to believe that all spirituality and all religions except Islam are bad. Remember, our secular saint, Uncle Karl Marx warned us that, "Religion is the opiate of the people". [Praising perversion is the opiate of the Left.]
# You must use the following buzzwords as often as possible without necessarily knowing their definitions: "Nazi", "Hitler", "gestapo", "police state", "police brutality", "totalitarian state", "imperialism", "imperialist", "running dogs of [fill in the blank], "greedy corporations", "shrub", "fascist", "paranoid", "paranoia", "goosestepping", "ruling-class", "class-strife", "class warfare", "stolen election", "unconstitutional", "racist", "entitlements", "hate", "bourgeois" or better yet, "petty bourgeois", "counter-revolutionary", "progressive", "red-baiter", "witch hunt", "inquisition", "anti-Communist", "deviationist", "revisionist", "reactionary", "multiculturalism", "oppressed", "unilateral", "victims of Yankee oppression", "plight of the [fill in the blank] people", "victimhood", "mean-spirited", "McCarthyism", "jingoism", "flag-wavers", "neocons", "alternative(s)", "empowered" and, of course, overuse of the indispensable "F" word.
# You have to believe that there were never any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, even though they were used against Iran, the Kurds and the Iraqi people and even though the many Democrats warned us about WMD before the Iraqi invasion: William Jefferson Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Sandy Berger, Madeline Albright, Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, Robert Byrd, Jay Rockefeller, John Kerry, Bob Graham, Ted Kennedy, Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman and vice-president Al Gore to name only the most vociferous.

Youve been warned!

This is a short video explaining the reality of the situation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs

Getting loud, violent and ugly over health care, something every major democracy already has. There is a great deal of ignorance and hate in America and apparently more than the usual percentage of nuts you find in any democracy.

This is the real America. Most of my compatriots are incredibly bigoted. The same people that were "against big government" were no where to be found for the previous eight years of record-breaking government spending.

The elite scares these idiots into fighting wars and now into rejecting what would only benefit them.

Golly, you Americans! Social Health Care exists in many of the largest western democratic economies on this planet, and they are doing quite well, thank you. These countries apply many of the great ideas the U.S.A. has achieved and will achieve in the future, so how about, for once, if the U.S.A. applied one of the great ideas these countries have achieved?
Social health care is social as in social consciousness, not socialism,
and social consciousness, in my view, is more a sign of how free and democratic a society is, and by the way, democratic as in democracy and not as in democratic or republican parties. It's sad that grown up and mature people have to be taught the learn and appreciate the big difference. You hear social and you immediately think Russia. I hear social and I think of social democratic economic powerhouses like Sweden, Germany, and France, just to name three.

I'm so shocked. This is pure racism. Even though I'm not surprised. I know that most of these people had something against the idea of having an African-American president.
At least this debate on the health care plan helps to expose pathetic people full of hatred.

Ah mon dieu! Que dieu benisse les USA. Qu'est ce qu'il faut pour que les gens murissent et deviennent moins cretins. Un systeme de couverture sociale a la francaise ne peut qu'etre benefique. Alors pourquoi de telles reticences? Peut etre l'opposition a un tel programme a d'autres motiations innavouees.
J'ai entendu une americaine pestait contre cet programme criant qu'elle veut pas d'un pays comme la Russie. Il faudrait qu'elle se renseigne un petit poil. Le communisme en Russie est fini depuis longtemps et qu'y reigne un capitalisme plus sauvage encore qu'aux USA. Pourquoi dans les pays dits developpes il y a une grande ignorance?