So there’s this guy named Luis Lang who hails from South Carolina and is one of those staunch Republicans who absolutely hates “Obamacare” and all it entails.  Thing is, he’s going blind now and…well, this is the upshot:

(he) declined to sign up for Obamacare because he “prided himself on paying his own medical bills,” and is now upset that the Affordable Care Act won’t bail him out.

To read the full story, check out the link below:

http://gawker.com/man-who-would-rather-go-blind-than-get-obamacare-now-go-1704019495

Politics are like sports.  You have your “team” that you root for and you hope the other team will fail…after all, they’re the “enemy” and therefore everything they do has to be wrong, amIright?

I rarely discuss politics in this blog because, frankly, I don’t want to expend the energy on something that might cause wheels to turn ’round and ’round without any resolution.

However, news like this make me both incredibly sad as well as incredibly angry.  For years I’ve been alarmed by conservative, hard right talk radio as well as the rise of Fox News.  Spreading the attitude that somehow conservative thought is the only “legitimate” philosophy and everything else is dead wrong and unacceptable is to me, well, unacceptable.

I’ve had a rather unique life in the sense that I was born and traveled in my very early years between two Cold War era Communist countries, then lived in a European style socialist country, then what I like to describe as a “right wing wet dream” capitalist country, before finally settling in the United States, a country I would describe as straddling the line, at least in recent years, between socialist and capitalist ideals.

Brother, I’ve seen -and experienced- ’em all.

And I’ve come to realize that if people keep preaching pure negativity about something, especially something like Obamacare that just might be helpful to them, you’re going to get many more Luis Langs…people who could benefit from a service if they could only get past their pre-programmed and illogical dislike of it.

Will Mr. Lang realize this at any point?

I wonder.