The birthers, the anti-healthcare reformers, etc. etc.

[yesthattom]

Reasoning hasn't worked. We are dumb to reason with them because their goal isn't to have a constructive debate, it is to destroy the conversation so that there is no progress.

What we really should do is yell at them, "If you hate it so much, why don't you move to France!?!?!?"

Maybe that will confuse them.

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[dieppe.livejournal.com]

Wait... does France have universal health care?

But yeah, it does boggle my mind sometimes how vehemently against universal health care otherwise reasonable Christian folks are. They're doing the "don't take my money!" chant, while forgetting that their God told them to give all of it away, to the poor.. and other stuff. Anyway.

[drglam]

I think the meme should be "WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA?"

That and continually asking why they're such bad Christians (while quoting extensively from the Sermon on the Mount).

[dballing.livejournal.com]

So, wait... if you're "anti-healthcare-reform", you're automatically lumped in with people who don't want a debate?

I'll happily debate healthcare reform 'til the cows come home but "constructive" does not always mean "come around to your way of thinking". I've engaged in a number of constructive debates about healthcare reform, and still believe that the left is flat-out wrong-headed in their way of trying to attack healthcare.

I did see one idea the other day that I liked... how about a trade-off? You get your public-option but then TRUE competition is enabled by removing all the regulations on the insurance industry.

Let them operate however they like, just like the gov't operation can operate however it feels like. In other words, "a public option can exist only so long as the remainder of the industry is un-regulated".

And let's see which products and services thrive. I'll put money on the private-sector. :-)