Obamacare won't be a "train wreck."
People don't really hate the IRS.
And, um, it would be nice if we could stop getting coverage on phony scandals and start focusing on real ones. Like, for example, the fact that our crumbling infrastructure is a greater danger than either the IRS or Obamacare.
But hey, dealing with real problems cost real money. Probably would require raising taxes. Can't have that, can we? It's better that a few people that aren't any of us get killed, so that the rest of us can get back to playing Trivial Pursuit with the corporate media.
The good news is that we can only be destroyed by ourselves. The bad news is that our self-destruction seems to be well under way. Because we're not paying attention to real problems. Because we've done what Paddy Chayefsky warned us, almost 40 years ago, we would do: let corporate America turn news into entertainment. And, while they've done it, they've even managed to turn Chayefsky's most famous phrase into a weapon against their critics.
It's time to reclaim it. It's time for progressives to get mad as hell, and not take it anymore.
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