patrice
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Sat Sep-05-09 12:35 PM
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Someone asked me last night "Who's behind you people?" when I handed him a Medicare for All flier. |
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Edited on Sat Sep-05-09 12:39 PM by patrice
At first I was puzzled, because I couldn't imagine what he meant. When he restated himself a little, I realized that he thought that I am part of somekind of powerful national organization that is trying to do something (I couldn't quite figure out what). I'm not. It's just me and my friends from around here who decided to advocate for Health Care/Insurance Reform. We decide for ourselves what that's going to be. We do not maintain contact within any kind of hierarchy or ask others what to do. He would not believe me. I walked on, but it made me think how much projection and displacement are going here.
People who quite possibly themselves are dependent upon external authority and HATE that fact are projecting themselves onto others, because though they may talk a big game, they really don't or can't imagine how to act in - dependent - ly.
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Sat Sep-05-09 12:38 PM
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1. One thing he should've known from the git-go - it wasn't the Inscos or Big Pharma... |
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Sat Sep-05-09 12:40 PM
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2. Did you tell him: God, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, |
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all that is right and just and...Marcus Welby, M.D.?
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Sat Sep-05-09 12:45 PM
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3. Oh, the Tooth Fairy! Definitely the Tooth Fairy! You should see our funky little fliers, lol. |
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Sat Sep-05-09 12:56 PM
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4. I like the "God" part - |
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in all sincerity tell them God spoke to you and said it was evil to deny health care for all. . .
that should f with their tiny little heads.
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Sat Sep-05-09 01:02 PM
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6. Oh! Oh! Oh! WHY can't I be that clever?? PERFECT! I will remember to use that |
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if I ever get any kind of another chance.
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Sat Sep-05-09 05:01 PM
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9. Be more specific -- say it was Jesus |
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Jesus told you to care for the sick. It's in Matthew.
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Sat Sep-05-09 11:56 PM
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13. The Marcus Welby Communist Socialist Facist foundation for national healthcare? |
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Sat Sep-05-09 12:57 PM
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5. The answer is YOU PEOPLE. |
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or THE PEOPLE, not a psuedo person corporation.
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Sat Sep-05-09 01:14 PM
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7. Wanna make his head explode? |
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Tell him ACORN and the NAACP.
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Sat Sep-05-09 11:58 PM
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Sat Sep-05-09 05:47 PM
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10. funny how the idea that you're doing it for the public good didn't occur to him |
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Isn't that telling?
Thank you for what you're doing. :hug:
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Sat Sep-05-09 11:43 PM
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11. Jeebus. Y'all ^ are cruel. Funny, but cruel. n/t |
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Sat Sep-05-09 11:51 PM
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He probably wondered how anyone could POSSIBLY have a strong opinion on something without it being explained in over-simplistic terms by some authoritarian figure on TV.
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