tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13530609.post7726363173925429230..comments2023-06-28T06:49:14.863-07:00Comments on A Boy Named Dug: How I Became A RepublicanDughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08827175240352968894noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13530609.post-77771382552982635282009-11-10T08:51:44.435-08:002009-11-10T08:51:44.435-08:00Funny how the comments that disagree with me are a...Funny how the comments that disagree with me are always anonymous. At least on the political sphere.<br /><br />What makes one a conservative is liking the way things are/were and not wanting change (or wanting it back the way it was). What makes one a liberal is wanting to make things better, which means change and often means new. <br /><br />There's a balance between the two that's completely missing in American political thought.<br /><br />Healthcare is an excellent example. The system as it is is broken, pure and simple. Many of the complaints about reform coming from the right are all problems that are in place now, and they're coming from a great many people who already benefit from socialized medicine. At the same time, my mother subscribes to Tricare's CHCBP program (essentially COBRA for widows of military officers), and it's a freaking disaster. But it's better as a Medicare supplement than the alternatives. <br /><br />We *have* a one-size-fits-all approach to health care decisions, and those decisions are made based on providing increasing equity to shareholders. The rest of the industrialized world has abandoned this model for good reason. Perhaps it's time for us to do the same. <br /><br />BTW, I didn't actually become a Republican. I'm still registered as a GDI, and will be until I die. Parties are for people who would like someone else to tell them how to think.Dughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08827175240352968894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13530609.post-38961512368514093962009-11-10T08:36:54.260-08:002009-11-10T08:36:54.260-08:00"Hating stupid laws doesn't make you Repu..."Hating stupid laws doesn't make you Republican, it just makes you rational."<br /><br />Which is the first step towards making you a Republican.<br /><br />Seriously: if you don't like the one size fits all approach to domestic violence, wait until you see the one size fits all approach to health care decisions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13530609.post-35316646728728592442009-07-21T07:09:35.986-07:002009-07-21T07:09:35.986-07:00Hating stupid laws doesn't make you Republican...Hating stupid laws doesn't make you Republican, it just makes you rational. :D I'm curious if any of those well thought out laws came from the initiative process.Greg Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04653347780730520507noreply@blogger.com