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Mickel Adzema

Oct 25 • 51 tweets • 70 min read

Ch 23, titled, ““The Compassion Gap:

“With the Excuse of “The Game,” Small-Hearted Folks Can Now Flaunt Their Mean-Spiritedness”

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

Fr *Culture War Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(pub 10/2022)

sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur…

CW22Q 23/1

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

From *Culture War Class War 2022:

*Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(available on website, as well as a free pdf file, & on Amazon in print & ebook, as of Oct 2022)

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CW22Q 23/2

[*Quotes/highlights:*] “…what happened to our country? We were supposed to be a country that valued human life, for example, but is now valuing contract law over that.” []

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CW22 23/3

[] “…the word has become more important than the person, & better that people sleep in the gutters or lie out in the park than to lend them a hand.” []

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CW22Q 23/4

[] “Rules (Made Up to Benefit the Wealthy) Are Now More Important Than Life” []

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CW22Q 23/5

[] “…this is the kind of thing brought up year after year over the decades to the point where it became the things I heard being valued growing up were laughable: *compassion, if you were caring about people, or not wanting people to die*.” []

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CW22 23/6

[] “…by the time of Nixon.… You couldn’t say you were actually going to help out the poor anymore.” []

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CW22Q 23/7

[] “…isn’t it kind of like that racism has become classism? It’s kind of like a hatred that’s not been eliminated because they’re still saying that about people of color, but it’s been expanded.” []

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CW22Q 23/8

[] “It includes more people—Whites & Blacks...& all other kinds of colors. All the poor, they’re all now lazy, deserving what they get...if you listen to our society’s wealthy Controllers.” []

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CW22 23/9

[] “& by the way, with the voices [of the super wealthy] broadcast everywhere, with even CNN going the way of fascism as of September 2022, it is virtually all you will hear.” []

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CW22Q 23/10

[] “Nixon’s answer to health care, to help the middle class, he started the move toward HMOs.” []

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CW22Q 23/11

[] “[Nixon] is told that Edgar Kaiser is proposing a ‘for profit’ system of health care.

“Now here we have people who can’t afford health care & now you want to have a system that’s going to add to the costs of it.” []

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CW22 23/12

[] “…to all necessary costs that are already there, HMOs add the cost of profits to go to the owners of that health care system.” []

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CW22Q 23/13

[] “…by this point, because of the Culture War & mean-spiritedness being stirred up in the country by Republicans, it had become necessary to single out the middle class as the only ones receiving the benefit….” []

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CW22Q 23/14

[] “…an HMO employee received bonuses upwards of twenty-thousand dollars for cancelling coverage on people who were costing the insurer a lot of money.” []

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CW22 23/15

[] “She cancelled hundreds of policies, including for those who were scheduled for life-saving procedures. In one ‘particularly good’ year for this person, she saved her employer six million dollars.” []

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CW22Q 23/16

[] “…these HMO-persons were rewarded for taking people’s lives….” []

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CW22Q 23/17

[] “…[Linda Peeno] admitted her action amounted to a murder, for which she should have been charged but wasn’t. She pointed out how perverse it was that instead the system rained rewards upon her.” []

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CW22 23/18

[] “And it’s contract law that is stretched to benefit the people with the most money & who have the better lawyers & who can, y’know, twist things better in their favor.” []

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CW22Q 23/19

[]“…at the time of his health-care proposal, [Nixon] said huge managed-care systems, which he touted as being 1-stop medical systems, were going to lower health care costs.”

“[Nixon] said these lower expenses wud benefit the whole system.[]

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CW22Q 23/20

[] “Apparently, [Nixon] forgot to mention the for-profit part, which ended up funneling all those benefits, those lower expenses, into the pockets of the owners & shareholders.” []

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CW22 23/21

[] “That is what happens when you put profit-hungry businessmen in charge of care. Gradually, America’s medical needs were primarily the purview of business, big business.” []

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CW22Q 23/22

[] “Just as with school lunches in America, American corporations were making huge profits taking over, & reducing the quality of, essential needs—food, health care, prisons, & so on. You will see this as a pattern of Republicans always..” []

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CW22Q 23/23

[] “…the health care law that went into effect under Obama was to make sure everyone would receive coverage, not health *care*.” []

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CW22 23/24

[] “We are still finding out how effective this health care reform will be in reducing these sorts of abuses by insurers.

“No doubt it is better than what existed before. Much better.” []

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CW22Q 23/25

[] “Yet, sadly, Obamacare leaves intact the profit motive in American health care. Hence, any regulation & prohibitions of abuses are likely to amount to tying down a ravenous beast with bungee cords.” []

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CW22Q 23/26

[] “It is hard not to believe this monster created by Nixon will not break free whenever it can & wreak much havoc before being stopped again...but again with piles of dead Americans in its wake.” []

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CW22 23/27

[] “…my own story about my wife is similar to Obama’s but different, because it has to do, not with money payments, but the quality of care that comes about when profit-seekers control the health care of a country.” []

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CW22Q 23/28

[] “My own story is about how my *wife physically suffered* during her last days, although it was most definitely covered by her insurance.” []

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CW22Q 23/29

[] “…her agony put money in the hands of corporate fat cats’ hands who owned that HMO as well as some of the doctors making out handsomely getting paid for each operation & procedure, even if it is an unnecessary one….” []

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CW22 23/30

[] “My wife didn’t benefit by the HMO’s cutting services to increase their profits. She didn’t make out very well with these doctors performing these unnecessary procedures, which put money in their pocket.” []

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CW22Q 23/31

[] “[My wife] wasn’t helped at all by the physician who insisted that her writhing around on the bed was not from a hip joint out of place—the doctor could have just checked, the CNA was able to see it—but was from an advanced dementia.” []

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CW22Q 23/32

[] “Yet that kind of poor care is what can be expected from doctors & nurses who are overworked to benefit the corporation & who themselves are operating out of a profit motive in the health-care decisions they make for you & me.” []

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CW22 23/33

[] “…to the costs in suffering of healthcare provided poorly, with the only remedy being litigation, add the costs of time taken away from other pursuits, better pursuits, pursuits that would benefit society...” []

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CW22Q 23/34

[] “…[pursuits that would benefit society...] none of which gets done when people are forced into The Game as their only option for redress. When corporate-benefiting policies result in cruelty, & death.” []

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CW22Q 23/35

[] “Much of health care, you see, had been in the hands of charitable entities & people dedicated to the idea of service, caring for the sick, getting them well, caring for your fellow person, your fellow man or woman, etc;” []

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CW22 23/36

[] “naturally the type of care you received was infused with such ideals.

“Yet with Nixon all that changed. & Nixon loved it.” []

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CW22Q 23/37

[] “Now you not only have to pay more for private care but also compared to not so long ago it is being increasingly performed by angry, stressed, tense, overworked, underslept professionals.” []

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CW22Q 23/38

[] “Well, what happens when you’ve got those kind of people providing you medical care on the private side? One example of what happens we saw with my wife’s final days.” []

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CW22 23/39

[] “This story of HMOs taking over from private practitioners is the same pattern we know so well of the big guys gobbling up the little ones.” []

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CW22Q 23/40

[] “It’s the story of creeping corporate insertion into every aspect of your life that you keep seeing over & over again in America. & it’s changed America.” []

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CW22Q 23/41

These have been quotes/highlights from Chapter 23 of my new book,

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

which is

“A Cultural & Political Psychohistory of America from the 1950s to 2022”

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CW22 23/42

The entire book is available online at the links

& you can download a free copy of *Culture War, Class War 2022* there.

Feel free to download it, pass it around, use it to help a Democratic Blue Wave in Nov., as you wish,

THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #BlueWave

CW22Q 23/43

Feel free to download copies of *Culture War, Class War 2022*, pass it around, use it to help a Democratic Blue Wave in Nov., as you wish,

in preparation for the existentially important Midterm elections

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CW22Q 23/44

This is the completed document for *Culture War, Class War 2022*; it is extensively illustrated.

Click link:

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It is a pdf file, & it looks exactly as the book looks.

#BlueWave #Midterms #ClassWar #resist #Republicans #healthcare #Blue #BLM

CW22 23/45

Download as many copies as you wish. It looks exactly as the book does.

The book was written as a primer on history & current events, as a lead up to the very important Midterm elections of November 2022.

Click link:

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#BlueWave #Midterms

CW22Q 23/46

said about *Culture War, Class War 2022":

"Well worth reading...Describes where we are and how we got here with great accuracy."

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CW22Q 23/47

If, instead of the free copies, you wish to purchase the book—ebook or paperback—these are the links to use:

Paperback: amazon.com/dp/B0BJ4YVDQC/…

Ebook: amazon.com/Culture-War-Cl…

All my books are sold at cost or the absolute lowest price Amazon allows

#BlueWave

CW22 23/48

Democrats need to WIN BIG in November

or it is all over for democracy in America & the world

& for the life on this planet.

You can use your copy of *Culture War, Class War 2022* to get word out to whoever or to whatever outlet you know.

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CW22Q 23/49

& please send any comments/reviews of the book to me at

[email protected]

The idea being I might be able to use your comments in describing it in my own sharing on social media.

And, above all, VOTE DEMOCRATIC

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CW22Q 23/50

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