The real death panels are all sponsored by Republican "free markets" which always leave tens of millions of Americans without healthcare coverage, a circumstance that results in 45,000 needless deaths a year. (That's about half a million a decade.)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html
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See Pope Francis' new "apostolic exhortation" on Republican death panels:
"Pope Francis Rips Capitalism, Free Markets And Trickle-Down Economics"
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The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its persistent postulation of a socio-economic (and racial) threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die.
The sooner the better.
Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right."
To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice,
Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right."
To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice,
hoping that spilled blood will placate "the angry gods," including the one they've made of themselves.
Having poked their eyes out, they fail to see that self-generated wrath creates "the gods" who hold them thrall.