Admittedly that title may be hitting slightly below the gigantic supposedly anti-capitalistic designer belt. Michael Moore is coming to Sacramento today to lecture the legislature on how to handle health care. Because the musings of a filmmaker who, by the way, couldn’t look less healthy, are relevant to such a complex problem. I guess in a state where portraying yourself as a robot from the future counts as gubanatorial portraying yourself as an expert on government conspiracies makes you qualified to pontificate on health care. Glad to know our legislature is spending its time so wisely. Perhaps to beat summer doldrums they can get George Clooney or Bono to come talk about Africa.  Â
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Repeatedly I see debates that eventually lower themselves to attack Moore on a personal level, in so far as we (the public) can, considering most of us don’t know him personally.
The point is you’re missing the point if you are caught up in the drivel.
I agree that Moore uses some extremist rhetoric that while likely being fact based somewhere along the line, like and statistic it’s bent to the purpose of those reiterating them. He inflates the issues a bit, or makes light of them in a fairly smarmy manner. These are all things that can be agreed on as far as I can tell.
So how is it we’re not getting the point?
Moore is doing one thing right. It’s not the presentation, it’s not whether he’s right or wrong, it’s not that he doesn’t live a healthy lifestyle himself – it *is* that a topic that a lot of people weren’t mulling over in any serious capacity is now getting nationwide scrutiny. That is the important part. People need to think about things that effect them before they’re inundated with reacting to them after it’s too late.
You, and I, and your fellow citizens are exchanging views about our healthcare system in a much more enthusiastic manner than usual. He just provided the catalyst. It’s up to all of us do decide what to do with our conclusions.
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