Reply #10: These people are clueless to how much of their lives are intertwined

[eagertolearn]

with the government that without all these services they would be in deep trouble. I live in a very teabagger populated area and feel sorry for their "follow the pied piper attitude". When I start to talk about real live issues like how their kid is getting their health care (Oregon Health care plan is government)and their medicare benefits, schools, police and safety etc. They just give you this blank stare (like what are you talking about?). But then start repeating all the things they have heard form the pastor of their church: "our local hospital will close down if health care reform passes, you will lose your freedom with your guns, you will lose all freedoms if there is any government takeover of our lives...It is sad. My mom is even this way and I thought she was intelligent until she started repeating all this stuff that she gets on the internet. Can they get koolaide from the internet? She doesn't leave her house because of the fears that have been created by this crap...especially since we have a black president. My mom is stating homophobic and racist comments to me on the phone and i didn't even know she had those thoughts. What is our country being transformed into? Why are we going backwards? (got off topic a bit!)