Rubber soul
Oh Romney is worried now about the American soul. This from Mr. Bain Capital, soul central! Could it have a more Dickensian name?? The “soul” Romney is talking about is the licence to pursue capitalism in its most cold-blooded form, and define THAT as the “soul” of the United States of America. Way to go, Mitt! You can make your case for this business model if you like, and no doubt you will have more chance to do so, but could you leave the word “soul” out of it, please? WWJD?
And anyway, come on, do the boomer candidates have to keep demonstrating that they are still stuck in the 60’s? This choice between an “entitlement society” and “opportunity society” is so false and outdated as to be laughable, if anybody still recognized ridiculousness when uttered. You could maybe make the case that the Democratic Party, Lyndon Johnson Era, was all about consequence-free program manufacture, but after Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, if you actually took the time to look at their records, which neither the media nor the public actually do, you’d see that centrism and pragmatism have seized the terrain, and you can listen to the howls of the tiny remnant left if you don’t believe me.
But oh oh oh, there’s an eager raised hand waving in the back of the class. WHAT ABOUT OBAMACARE??? Well, what about it? It’s an insurance plan built out of mostly Republican-engineered parts with some added cost-containment wonkery. Health insurance is done either through the government or the private sector, or a hybrid. Obamacare is a hybrid. The ROMNEY HYBRID! Does logic even EXIST anymore? Maybe you want to make the case that people should not HAVE health insurance if they are poor and undeserving. So go ahead, make that case, and see if you can work the word “soul” into your argument.
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