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Aug. 29th, 2008 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Sometimes I feel vaguely guilty because I never post about politics, but then I look at the state of the world (I thought learning Russian, apart from being interesting, might be useful; I hardly suspected we were in for the next Cold War...), the stupidity of our current election campaign (How can a party that has been in government for decades have election posters saying 'Es reicht!' ('Enough!')? That's either a tad schizophrenic, or assuming voters have no brain whatsoever; probably both.), and I give up in disgust, fight the urge to delete everything I've written, more often than not give in & delete, feel guilty about my cynicism for a while, because I do recognise how harmful this kind of attitude is, and then let myself get distracted by something pretty & shiny.
So here's Tilda Swinton being gorgeous on my desktop instead. /escapism

::sips tea::
So here's Tilda Swinton being gorgeous on my desktop instead. /escapism
::sips tea::
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Date: 2008-08-29 07:05 pm (UTC)I'm registered as a Democrat, of course, but you could probably call me a socialist and not be far off the mark. (i.e., I believe we need universal health care here, and even a lot of Democrats, I think, are against that. Stuff like that. Universal health care might not be perfect, but it's better than having to spend a small fortune on private insurance if, like me, you're not insured by your place of work, or a small fortune on a doctor's visit, or a somewhat bigger fortune on an emergency room visit. Oddly, a lot of people here go to the emergency room for minor things like sore throats, rather than making an appointment with their general practitioner. I don't understand that, because the E.R. costs so much more. I guess it's because a lot of GPs won't treat patients without insurance.)
Oh, and one of McCain's supporters recently stated that all Americans do have health care. An emergency room cannot turn away a patient. This is true, but the patient will be swimming in debt afterwards. *headdesk*
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Date: 2008-08-29 09:26 pm (UTC)I've been voting for the Green party or Liberals (those on the left side of the political spectrum) all my adult life, but I suspect in a few weeks' time we'll have yet another coalition of the Right and Further Right. It's hard not to get a little jaded...
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Date: 2008-08-29 09:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-30 05:33 pm (UTC)