Fool the Poor
& Feed the Rich
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| Actually, I don't care if this one dies from lack of health care |
The skill with
which political forces manipulate public opinion is how elections are won and
lost.
When fear-mongering is part of that, people can actually be convinced that they’re more likely to suffer or die at the hand of an immigrant, than from a treatable disease. The scary part is how easily voters will throw away logic and dive into the deception.
When fear-mongering is part of that, people can actually be convinced that they’re more likely to suffer or die at the hand of an immigrant, than from a treatable disease. The scary part is how easily voters will throw away logic and dive into the deception.
One
doesn’t have to dig too deeply beneath the piles of propaganda to discover who
wins and who loses in fear-based campaigns.
However, follow the money, and an Internet search remain proven paths to the truth.
However, follow the money, and an Internet search remain proven paths to the truth.
No,
Immigrants Are Not Likely To Kill You
As Business Insider points out, “Compared to the threat posed by refugee terrorists — which the president’s executive order is allegedly designed to curtail — the data suggest the typical American is:
- 6 times more likely to die from a shark attack (one of the rarest forms of death on Earth)
- 29 times more likely to die from a regional asteroid strike
- 260 times more likely to be struck and killed by lightning
- 4,700 times more likely to die in an airplane or spaceship accident
- 129,000 times more likely to die in a gun assault
- 407,000 times more likely to die in a motor vehicle incident
- 6.9 million times more likely to die from cancer or heart disease”
Yes,
Your Chances Of Dying Sooner Are Higher Without Healthcare
It almost seems
stupid to not figure this one out without a bunch of charts and graphs. The
Kaiser Family Foundation has a lot of them here. However, common sense and
personal experience should be all the data you need.
It’s safe to say
that just about every American has, or knows someone, who has been unable to
afford life-saving medication or treatment for a curable condition.
Lack
Of Facts Are The Real Killers
According to the Harvard Gazette, in 2009, prior to the
Affordable Care Act, 45,000 Americans died each year because they couldn’t
afford healthcare.
If 45,000
Americans died each year from terrorist or immigrant attacks, you can bet the
problem would be immediately addressed with an Act of Congress.
But Congress
doesn’t seem to care about that, based on the Trumpcare debacle coming from the
Granny-staving Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan, and his punish-the-poor Obamacare ‘replacement.’
This is where follow the money comes in.
Gracie Lou is a
political junkie, animal rights advocate, and award-winning writer. She
believes that if people can stand on line to buy junk food, they can stand on
line to vote.
