Towards a more perfect Union or dealing with the intellectually incompetent and hysterical while still enacting universal health care in the U.S.

"The greatest triumph of reason is to live well with those who have none."
Voltaire
Listening to the pure irrational hysteria coming from much of the American right regarding universal health care, one is tempted to go kick the couch or take a hammer to a recently retired gas guzzler. Why, you ask yourself, is it so difficult to understand that the French spend 6% of their lower GDP per capita and cover all their citizens obtaining arguably better results than the U.S. which spends almost 18% of GDP and does not, so very difficult to grok.

Then, one remembers that about 40% of the citizenry is incapable of critical reasoning.
The planet is beginning a change the equal of that experienced between the middle ages and the renaissance or the pre-industrial and industrial ages. The U.S., is as usual, in the vanguard. Rapid change can be fearsome, profound change more so.
But, the law of Entropy demands the destruction of the old so that the new can reorganize on a higher plane. All this is obvious. The problem, as old Voltaire so well knew, is that a large part of society is incapable of understanding, they just are that is all.
Who are these people? Easy. They are those who believe Ex-Governor Palin should be President of the United States. This is an idea so devoid of reason, so absurd, that only someone who's cognitive abilities are as efficient as a Chevy Tahoe is efficient in its use of fuel, could subscribe to this intellectual infantilism. Like the Tahoe, they will simply cease to be produced and end up being scrapped. This is certain and is simply a function of time.

So here's to old Voltaire, as wise in the 21st century as he was in the 18th. As he guided the founders, quintessential men of reason then, let him guide us now.