While I completely agree that privatization needs to be removed from health care, much of health care is how we, each of us, take care of ourselves. As the body breaks down it shouldn’t be a wonder. We are disconnected from our bodies in so many ways. Take work…I mean the kind whereby the WHOLE body (and mind which is the body) is engaged. It’s been eliminated, erased, from most American’s lives. We “exercise”, walk, bike not to get some place but to take our bodies out for a little activity because our bodies are like foreign objects…like the automobiles we drive around in. And many Americans (most?) don’t even bother with that.

And the neglect of what we take in for energy, our food…is grotesque. Sure it’s what comes out of a massively-scaled fossil based food system…but

Health is much bigger than the so-called “system” the US has in place. Certainly that system is completely dysfunctional because at its best you get an annual check up (like your car). We have no pleasure with our bodies…the kind of pleasure that comes from physical work requiring mental dexterity and engagement. The kind of exhaustian that comes from such work is pure pleasure. And it is the basis of health care and healthy living.

Industrialization and post-modernism has created much of what we have and are. But the mere scale of the US landscape makes it totally incapable of responding to human needs. Those needs are local, human scale.

Yes, we have a polity which is corporate to the core. It is not what we need, but we keep expecting something from it. That’s the mistake. Ignore it…let it go away…engage ourselves in living and community.

We are truly the problem because we keep waiting for a different polity and different government…or we rail against it in ways that are negative and produce nothing new.

When those “leftists” do protest, say against, nukes, they hop back in their fossil cars, and go home and turn on the switch all brought to you by the very utility you demonstrated against. We are the problem.

As far as the American sheeple are concerned, here’s a few reasons why they will continue to slumber into full-blown fascism:

“There is, of course, no reason why the new totalitarianisms should resemble the old. …In an age of advanced technology, inefficiency is the sin against the Holy Ghost. A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
Aldous Huxley

“A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies, and we are dying now. …Those who cling to fantasy in times of despair and turmoil inevitably turn to demagogues and charlatans to entertain and reassure them.”
Chris Hedges. See The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle at http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/08/the-end-of-literacy-and-the-triumph-of-spectacle/

“Getting through the noise, hoping to find snippets of interest in otherwise flat and formulaic programs, and having to endure the densely-packed relentless advertisements and product placements, and not knowing whether a news segment is canned from an industry consultant, invites a vacation from an already limited resort to my TV. There are so many other things to do and learn and evoke than watching screens.”
Ralph Nader at http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/13-1

Obama is more concerned with his big donors than the American people, just as most congressmen are. But why is nothing being done. What has caused such lethargy and apathy in American society? It always appalled me that more was not done to stop Bush, by the People. But when this fake economic crisis was concocted, and the people of U.S. being openly ripped off of all their wealth and resources, I thought for sure we would see the anger turn to some form of action. But nothing happened. This is why I know deep in my heart that U.S. is finished. When even their own money and wealth is plundered and looted in broad daylight, and they do nothing, it is time to realize that its over. The oligarchs are winning and people need to understand that as horrific as Middle East crimes are (nothing worse than this), it was the U.S. working classes that have been the main target all along.

The one thing standing in the way of One World Government by the few has been the Average working class and middle class citizen of U.S.
Now that this threat is and has been diminished we will soon be seeing a complete change in landscape. Expect to be flooded with foreign elites, coming to claim their collateral.