Government and the Insurance Industry
Two of the most hated industries in my area, eastern Indiana Teabaggistan, are the government and the insurance industry. Its hard to find anyone with a good word to say about either. The people just hate them.
They are very similar in their interaction with people. Both offer services whose value is hard to see in real dollar terms. (The Teabaggistanners hate Comcast, Direct TV, Verizon and any Utility too, but at least they know what they are buying from them.) Back to the government and Insurance companies,... They are both hard to work with, demanding, with lots of arcane rules the individual must follow. They are loaded with disinterested bureaucratic workers, processes and god-damned forms. They are generally slow and inefficient at every point of contact and we contact both of them a lot in our lives, from our healthcare, our home, to our cars. And,... they both take pretty big chunks out of the working class incomes. People hate them,... just hate'em.
Someone, Paul Krugman maybe, likes to say the Government is just an insurance company with an army. I'd say that's pretty close. link to see the original source
Government vs Insurance companies and the Police vs African-Americans
Back in my younger, dope-smoking days in Teabaggistan when we all hated cops (because they are generally just dicks), and many people hated african-americans, (usually because our dads did, we didn't even know any), the nation was split by a thing called the Rodney King Trial.
The Rodney King Trial was the result of a bunch of Kalifornia cops being caught on tape beating up a black guy named Rodney King. They had pulled him over for a traffic stop and he must have gave them some shit so they, again, being dicks, pulled him out of his car an beat the shit out of him. Someone caught it on tape. the cops were charged. A riot, and lengthy trial followed. Teabaggistan, and the nation, was split as to whether the cops were guilty of beating someone or if Mr King deserved the beating.
My opinion at the time was that the main factor that determined which side of that argument someone agreed with depended whether they hated Cops or African-Americans more. A few of us, generally the more dope-smoker hippie types, felt that the cops were dicks. They beat him because they could and it was just fun cop stuff. It could have been anyone of us in Mr. Kings place. We didn't care that he was black. the cops were dicks. Throw the bastards in jail. However, a majority of my Teabaggistan Komrades, generally the more racist, less-dope smoking, more beer/whiskey drinking types, felt that Mr King was in the wrong. That he resisted too much so he got what he deserved. We hated the cops more. They hated the black guy more.
I think this same sort of thing is playing out in the Obamacare War. Teabaggistanners hate both the Government and the Insurance companies but they hate that black, Muslim guy a lot more. Well, at least Fox news tells them they do.
Also of note, us dope-smokin' hippie types are generally living under their rule in Eastern Teabaggistan today. Pot is still illegal. Beer, whiskey, meth and jesus rule. cops are still dicks.
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