Comment by s1artibartfast
1 year ago
The majority has all the power and the current system is what the majority wants. Being a frustrated minority does not excuse violence.
1 year ago
The majority has all the power and the current system is what the majority wants. Being a frustrated minority does not excuse violence.
> Being a frustrated minority does not excuse violence.
-Random Internet comment in response to the colonial uprising and Declaration of Independence, circa 1776
> Being a frustrated minority does not excuse violence.
- random Internet comment in response to the execution of John Brown, 1859
Ethan Hawke has some great lines in The Good Lord Bird as John Brown.
That's untrue on its face. For instance, killing a guy is a way to use power.
It's not one we like, but nonetheless.
I was talking about the power to enact healthcare policy change. I have the power to kick a dog, but that is tangential to the objective of interest.
My point is that healthcare reform is obstructed by the fact that everyday American citizens want very different things and cant agree.
You're assuming his objective was to change healthcare policy, I doubt it was. I think the objective was good old fashioned revenge.
Like this is pure speculation right? But I have a strong feeling that, should the person be caught, we'll learn that they have or had a family member or even themselves insured with UHC who has suffered some harm, and that person felt UHC was responsible. Whether they were correct or not is immaterial: the CEO paid the price.
And you can feel whatever you feel about that, like I said, I don't want to live in a world where healthcare CEOs get gunned down in the street. But I also am acutely aware of how abusive insurance companies are, both from reading about those abuses in the news of others, and experiencing a handful of my own, and I also don't want to live in the status quo, where unelected, unaccountable private companies get to decide who lives, who dies, and who goes bankrupt via inscrutable bureaucratic practices.
In my ideal world, accountability would be these rich bastards getting hauled into congress and charged for the abuses their companies inflict on American citizens. But since our system seems unwilling to do that, if the alternative is they get to walk around just a bit scared that someone will [ censored for HN ]? Well, probably won't fix anything, but I'd be a liar if I said I'd lose a wink of sleep over it.
5 replies →
laws are lobbied by corporations and special interest groups, everyday Americans have very little say in legislation
[dead]