Why are people so keen on gov't run healthcare again?

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Aren't you black and a "rapper" (or whatever it is you kids call being a bum these days), therefore doubly likely to benefit from universal health-care?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Night Phoenix

What does that have to do with anything? Yes, I'm an emcee (and I'll rhyme circles around 90% of niggas you can put up against me), but I'm also college educated, so calling me a bum is the furthest you can get from the truth. Understand this, you arrogant bastard: I'm ten times the musician you'll ever be and just because I'm black and a 'rapper' as you put it doesn't mean I would want to or have to support this socialist bullshit the left is peddling.

I was just joking. I guess it was a pretty bad (and racist) joke. Sorry?

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Either that or allow enfranchisement only after proof of competency in civics. Having the nation being led by people who don't know what they're doing for more than half the time is not conducive to a good and just republic.

I am not sure I buy this. "Don't know what they're doing" is a bit of a slippery slope, isn't it? Who decides what people should know?

People are entitled to their views and freedoms on both parts of the spectrum.

If someone wants to vote for a canditate because of their hair or religion, what is it to you? If the problem is a lack of education, perhaps the ball is on your court to educate. It isn't as if rural areas asked to be poor or underfunded -- there are specific historical conditions that led to this. You wouldn't blame a kid who never went to school for not being able to write; why would you blame people from rural areas with "subpar" education for not having their priorities straight?

There's nowhere I can't reach.