You definitely have a very good point there. If it were brought up often enough, I'm sure we see the position of the NRA and the defenders of A2 at all costs evolve rather quickly.
How can something so simple -- it costs x dollars for a doctor in a hospital to treat a patient, therefore x dollars are needed to treat him/her -- elude GOPers? Limiting the amount paid by the government will not change that part of the equation and can only result in a shortfall. So either the government pays for people who can't afford insurance and the US joins the rest of the civilized world, or else it does not and this government shows it doesn't care about a majority of its own citizens. What a sad day it will be if GC comes to pass.
When, a dozen years from now, most countries use renewable energy that lowers the cost of manufacturing and explains why jobs have moved out of the US, will American workers remember that it was Trump's failure to see the big picture that is to blame for their reduced standard of living compared with the rest of the developed world?
The US does not have universal healthcare because not enough people realize that the GOP, which some take to be a concervative party, is actually quite reactionary in terms of the ideology they are trying to push onto the masses.
"the Republicans seem to be uncharacteristically open minded"
That phrase is so far removed from reality it merits becoming one for the ages.
An open-minded Republican: what a contradiction in terms.
It is debatable whether the Quebec City attacker is a far-right extremist, as this observation is based on the fact a link to the French far-right Marine Le Pen was found on a social account; that alone does not make him an extremist; it’s also unlikely his upbringing in a small town in Quebec where there are very few foreigners, if any, could have made him so.
What likely explains his action is the debate in Quebec about some foreigners; this debate often centers on Muslim women wearing a hijab, something many French Quebecers view as a sign they don't want to integrate into the French majority culture, choosing English over French as their everyday language. This is what riles a lot of French nationalists who view this as a threat to the survival of French and explains why they want to separate from the rest of Canada. But these separatists – and Bissonette is likely one of them -- are very much on the left of the political spectrum and would never espouse any of the GOP policies as far-right extremists do in the US.
So Bissonette is now a terrorist -- something some people seem to turn into almost overnight ; but is he also an extremist – which is rather the result of one’s whole upbringing and environment ?
You definitely have a very good point there. If it were brought up often enough, I'm sure we see the position of the NRA and the defenders of A2 at all costs evolve rather quickly.
How can something so simple -- it costs x dollars for a doctor in a hospital to treat a patient, therefore x dollars are needed to treat him/her -- elude GOPers? Limiting the amount paid by the government will not change that part of the equation and can only result in a shortfall. So either the government pays for people who can't afford insurance and the US joins the rest of the civilized world, or else it does not and this government shows it doesn't care about a majority of its own citizens. What a sad day it will be if GC comes to pass.
When, a dozen years from now, most countries use renewable energy that lowers the cost of manufacturing and explains why jobs have moved out of the US, will American workers remember that it was Trump's failure to see the big picture that is to blame for their reduced standard of living compared with the rest of the developed world?
The US does not have universal healthcare because not enough people realize that the GOP, which some take to be a concervative party, is actually quite reactionary in terms of the ideology they are trying to push onto the masses.
"the Republicans seem to be uncharacteristically open minded"
That phrase is so far removed from reality it merits becoming one for the ages.
An open-minded Republican: what a contradiction in terms.
It is debatable whether the Quebec City attacker is a far-right extremist, as this observation is based on the fact a link to the French far-right Marine Le Pen was found on a social account; that alone does not make him an extremist; it’s also unlikely his upbringing in a small town in Quebec where there are very few foreigners, if any, could have made him so.
What likely explains his action is the debate in Quebec about some foreigners; this debate often centers on Muslim women wearing a hijab, something many French Quebecers view as a sign they don't want to integrate into the French majority culture, choosing English over French as their everyday language. This is what riles a lot of French nationalists who view this as a threat to the survival of French and explains why they want to separate from the rest of Canada. But these separatists – and Bissonette is likely one of them -- are very much on the left of the political spectrum and would never espouse any of the GOP policies as far-right extremists do in the US.
So Bissonette is now a terrorist -- something some people seem to turn into almost overnight ; but is he also an extremist – which is rather the result of one’s whole upbringing and environment ?