Oct 3rd, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Palin / Reagan / Medicare Mashup
Igor Volsky’s got the video mash-up of Sarah Palin sampling Ronald Reagan’s dire 1961 prediction that Medicare would put us on the road to serfdom, followed by Reagan discussing the issue:
It’s worth being reminded now and again that conservatives really believed this stuff. That Medicare would lead to the eradication of freedom. That the Civil Rights Act was a horrible abridgment of American liberty. That withdrawal from Vietnam would lead to Soviet global domination. That Bill Clinton’s 1993 budget would destroy the economy. And that the people responsible for those — Reagan, Goldwater, Gingrich, etc. — ideas are heroes to be admired.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Don’t forget that water fluoridation was a Communist plot to …..to….I dunno….put dentists out of business??
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:41 pm
What’s with the past tense?
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
“We have to fight for it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that they shall do the same” and then make sure that their hands are grasping it, and then close their hands on it, by grabbing their fingers and showing them, and then pointing out that they have freedom in their hands and they shouldn’t let it go, and then remind them to keep this freedom safe, so that they do keep it safe…
In high school English class, we had an exercise where we were supposed to describe every step in making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The idea was to get us to understand detail and logical process: “First you take out the peanut butter.” “Where do you get the peanut butter?” “First you open the refrigerator.” “How did you arrive at the refrigerator?” “First you walk to the refrigerator.” “Where are you walking from?” And so forth. I think Palin is trying to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with her analogies.
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
And you know that “city on a hill” line came from a guy trying to start a theocracy.
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I would also note that the context in which Palin intended the quote was very unclear. Did she mean that we are at risk of losing freedom if we withdrawl from Iraq? If so, it was not apparent. At least witht the original Reagan quote, one knew what he was talking about, even if it was absurd. The way she used it just seemed creepy.
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Yeah, the left has such a great record of social/political/economic prognostication. Let’s see:
Central economic planning and state ownership is superior to a market-based economy.
By 1980, there will be massive worldwide famine due to population growth and we’ll be running out of most natural resources.
Reagan’s militarism and saber-rattling against the Soviet Union will plunge us into World War III.
The U.S. health care system is in crisis. Unless we pass HillaryCare, it’ll collapse within a few years.
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Good thing Reagan satisfied his bloodlust by slaughtering Central Americans and Southern Africans, instead of warring directly with the Soviet Union. But, I guess backing an evangelical anti-Mayan genocide in Guatemala gets Republicans off more than the left expected.
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Good thing Reagan satisfied his bloodlust by slaughtering Central Americans and Southern Africans, instead of warring directly with the Soviet Union.
Good thing Clinton satisfied his bloodlust by starving Iraqis, bombing Yugoslavians, and launching missiles against infant formula factories in Sudan.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Good thing Bush killed 100,000+ Iraqis, while claiming to “liberate” them.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I mean, I think Reagan still is an admirable figure, even though he had some kooky ideas that fortunately never had a chance of making it through Congress. I’m glad we have tax rates that top out around 40 percent, rather than 60 or 70 or even 90, as they did before Kennedy cut taxes.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:38 pm
“That withdrawal from Vietnam would lead to Soviet global domination.”
Liberals believed it, too. It was the dirty fucking hippies who figured out how stupid that was.
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