Bernie Sanders and the rise of the single-payer universe
By Jon Rappoport
"There are a whole lot of high-IQ lunatics running around
detailing all the crimes of the State...and then saying the wonderful
answer is the State, which suddenly becomes the messiah in radiant
robes. These loons are the crown princes of cognitive dissonance.
They're the Mickey Mouse Club of political philosophy." (The
Underground, Jon Rappoport)
When you boil it down, the formula is simple: take any
rotting, stench-ridden institution of society that appears to promise
good things for all, and make it free. Make it available to everyone
with a pulse.
"We've got this wonderful aging army of giant octopuses, and
we want to bring the whole population into their grasp. Won't it be
wonderful? We'll call this army Mommy and Daddy. It'll work. Promise."
Take two of Bernie's favorite monsters: medical care and college education. Turn them into single-payer operations.
The federal government pays, which means the tax payer pays,
which means taking budget money from there and putting it here.
Whatever.
But heaven forbid, let me look below the surface.
The US medical system kills 225,000 Americans every year. Every decade, the system kills 2.25 million people.
The basic citation on this is: Dr. Barbara Starfield, Journal
of the American Medical Association, July 26, 2000, "Is US health
really the best in the world?"
Starfield offers a conservative estimate of the damage.
106,000 Americans killed every year by correctly prescribed,
FDA-approved drugs. 119,000 killed by mistreatment and errors in
hospitals.
In my 2009 interview with Dr. Starfield, a revered
public-health expert at the John Hopkins School of Public Health, I
asked her whether the federal government had undertaken an effort to
correct this horrendous situation (capital crime), and whether the
government had ever approached her to consult on such a mission. To both
questions, she answered, resoundingly: No.
Inevitably, a single-payer medical system in America would
bring far more people (everyone) under the umbrella---and the death toll
would shoot up to the sky.
This is a fact, not a speculation.
So what looks and sounds good on the surface---"free medical care for all"---turns out to be an all-embracing holocaust.
If you haven't read any of my numerous articles on medical
killings, and therefore this comes as a great shock to you, take a
minute to try to recover...and read on.
Free college education for all---another nice-sounding idea.
If you want to subject your children to a federally controlled
interlocking directorate of commissars who bypass unimportant items like
reading, the ability to write coherently, any sort of grasp on history,
this system will put a goony smile on your face.
Who cares about the Humanities, as long as students learn how
to complain and protest the use of words (any words) that trigger their
emotions and put them in a highly vulnerable state, and provoke their
need for safe spaces where they can whine and complain and protest?
These experiences will surely prepare them for life in the real world
after their guaranteed graduation.
In college, they will learn that government (or some vague
representation of it that doesn't actually exist) will lead us all into a
better future where individual achievement is a marker of fraud,
deception, and unearned privilege.
Colleges will become mind-control propaganda factories for all children, not just some. Hail, Caesar.
Manuals and texts will appear that mandate how values and
group-think must be inserted into gullible minds, and professors who
object will find themselves selling plastic popcorn and ptomaine dogs at
movie theaters. O joy.
How could federal control of higher education for every child
in America possibly present a problem? How could Big Mommy and Daddy
Octopuses harbor evil and grotesque designs?
How many times have we been promised that shocking illiteracy
at the college level will be corrected? But don't worry, be happy,
because the solution to this problem will suddenly emerge when every
child, no matter who, no matter what, can matriculate and win a degree.
That, you see, was the missing key. Somehow.
Bernie knows the answers. He knows that when the federal
government is granted more and more power to execute the Big Fix for
America, a revolution of hearts and minds can't be far behind.
It was, understand, the unfairness and the wretched exclusion
of the system that produced all the failures...and when that is
eliminated, the ignorant will become smart, the devious will become
honest, the incompetent will become magisterial, the crooked will
develop new morals.
When teachers become full-fledged agents of the State, on
behalf of every child, an alchemical transformation will occur on all
levels. Thank goodness.
Grandpa Bernie knows. He's the one.
Make sure you understand that when Bernie says he's a
socialist, he doesn't, ahem, really mean it. How could he? How could he
want to place the means of production under the direct control of the
State? How could he want the State to own the means of production? He's,
well, a sort-of socialist, right? He's a Denmark socialist, which is
kinder and gentler than a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist. He's an FDR
socialist or a Eugene Debs socialist. He doesn't want massive
redistribution of goods and services in America, dictated from above. He
may want some redistribution, but no one would really notice it. They
would only notice things getting better. And they would get better
because America would essentially become a single-payer nation.
Government pays, tax payers pay (more). Government invents new money
whenever it needs to, just like now, except in much larger amounts. The
kids love Bernie, so he must be great. More free stuff. Who doesn't like
more free stuff?
In his 487 years in the Senate, Bernie has been on hold. But
now he'll break out and bring the revolution we've all been seeking. The
unwilling and unable and under-privileged will emerge---perhaps with
government jobs, because we'll need many more government employees. This
is something to look forward to with great excitement. We don't have
enough zero-tolerance and incompetence and robotic control. That problem
will be solved, at last.
But now the robots will have garlands around their necks and
rainbows in their eyes. It'll happen, because no one will be left out.
We'll all be together, and we'll finally know it. Cosmic collective
consciousness will stake its claim.
Sure it will.
Who can say what Bernie will do? The only way to find out is to elect him. Then we can unwrap the presents under the tree.
And 50 years from now, everyone in America will work for the government. That's the beautiful pop-up.
We'll all be in the same boat, so we can sail into the great dawn.
I've always suspected that government and the State were wondrous miracles...and now the vision is clarifying.
Put us all in charge, working for the Man. And we're the Man. The logic is inescapable. It's, what's the word, equality.
From each according to his mass psychosis, to each according to his mass psychosis.
No one will notice, because we'll all be crazy in the same way.
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