I keep hearing people criticize the president because he hasn't been able to garner as much support for his health care bill as he did during the election, essentially that his supporters are lazy and that they can't care enough to get involved in politics.
I find the assertion confusing and offensive... but mostly confusing.
What the fuck am I supposed to do?
I voted.
That's my part.
America has a representative government.
I voted for a representative to deal with this.
I would understand if the criticism was "liberals voted for an environmentalist president but they won't go outside and pick up their fast-food wrappers." That makes sense to me. I would criticize those people.
But what am I supposed to do about health care?
I want health care. I voted for the guy who said he'd get us some health care.
Am I supposed to step outside and start giving people health care? Or do they want me to find a doctor and demand he treat me for no money? Should I just send the government a fraction of the money I was supposed to be paying the insurance companies?
No one tells me this shit.
They just bitch about how Americans don't want to get involved with the process.
They're so desperate to color Americans as lazing fat-asses who can't be bothered to make their own lives better that they'd willfully compare me (and my like) unfavorably with people who bring guns to town hall meetings, shout ignorant shit at politicians (whom they criticize for not answering constituent's questions, which they would, were there not thirty idiots shouting at them for the length of the event), and spend at least an afternoon constructing a big-assed poster of Obama with a Hitler mustache for their eight year-old to wave as the president's motorcade rolls through town.
Is that what they want from us?
Is that what getting involved means?
Do I have to make an un-clever sign and behave like an irritable toddler to be a real American?
