tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1509187841033628660.post6021022816296821042..comments2024-03-05T00:29:07.493-07:00Comments on Medicine and Social Justice: Life expectancy, socialism, and the determinants of healthJosh Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10248920527894775520noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1509187841033628660.post-46473583909730647282016-02-15T05:13:08.032-07:002016-02-15T05:13:08.032-07:00Posted on behalf of Seiji Yamada, MD:
My mother a...Posted on behalf of Seiji Yamada, MD:<br /><br />My mother always told me, "If you're not liberal when you're young, you don't have a heart. If you're not conservative when you're old, you don't have a brain." But in reality, liberals hate socialism and socialists. As Chris Hedges says in The Death of the Liberal Class, the liberals hate Noam Chomsky most of all. The disdain of the DNC for Bernie is increasingly evident.<br /><br />Also, perhaps we want the police to protect us from sociopathic murderers, but as Prince Kropotkin said, 90% of laws are intended to protect private property. We could use less of police killing young Black men and young Micronesian men.<br /><br />Finally, I'm not happy that half of taxes that I pay goes to the military, the military-industrial complex, extrajudicial assassination by drones, and military adventurism and regime change (with attendant blowback, as per Chalmers Johnson).Josh Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10248920527894775520noreply@blogger.com