I've been horribly perplexed watching the right wing hysteria concerning health care reform. Apparently we're all going to be living in collectives or reeducation camps, forced to grind granny into Soylent Green, while Obama sends the Sandmen after any oldster spry enough to escape the fryer. Thousands of amok running state funded abortion doctors will be selling baby parts wrapped in the Constitution, and millions of wise Latinas will be cloned from stem cells to oversee the Workers Paradise.

Holy crap! I don't know ANYONE who is happy with their insurance. Mundane everyday claims denied, apparently just to see if they can get away with it (there's easy money in just checking the "nope" box), getting dropped because you had the audacity to get sick, profit motivated leaches (not government bureaucrats) standing between you and your health care provider, and on and on and on.

Then it finally struck me. Stockholm Syndrome. These people have been abused by the system for years, and the Right is playing on their fears such that they can't leave the status quo. Scared abuse victims going with the devil they know.

It's going to be a hard road. I'd be interested in other thoughts on why the Right can so successfully twist people to agitate/vote against their own self interest, and how to turn it around.