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  1. I don’t find his statement over the line in the least, and here’s why:
    They did this to us, not the reverse. They are saying with this bill that they want to kill me and 24 million other citizens who will be likely to lose their health insurance if it passes. We know the numbers on this, it’s not a mystery. 45,000 US citizens used to die each year because they didn’t have health insurance. That’s more than gun violence. it’s a Vietnam war every 15 months. And we did our dead level best to do something about it. What we did works better than we even expected, despite the mountain of lies they have told about it. It’s not my job to stop them from believing their own lies. We have to demand that policy is based on reality, and if we fail at that, all is lost.
    So I have been advocating for forceful speech in our defense and advocacy for a while now. They have been winning the “debate” in the public square by being louder and more persistent, and we have been assuming that because we are not lying, we will eventually win. That’s looking less and less likely with each outrageous lie they get away with basing policy on, so I feel we might better serve our interests by fighting back and refusing to let obvious lies go unchallenged.
    The framing often wins the argument, and it’s crucial that this bill be framed as the attack on our lives that it actually is, or they will do just what that woman in the video did and frame it as a good faith attempt to improve healthcare using their favored methods, when it is no such thing at all. It’s a goddamn tax cut that clears the way for an even bigger tax cut, and that’s the ONLY reason they care about it. Their constituents are not clamoring for their health insurance to be taken from them. The ACA is quite a bit more popular right now than either congress or president four-year-old.

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