It's really kind of sad how hateful we become over politics.
J, if I thought the biggest priority for our society was providing grants to people starting small and medium-sized businesses to pay their rent through their first five difficult years, and started a foundation to provide that help using voluntary contributions, you'd probably be unenthusiastic, but wish me well and continue your own pursuit of happiness.
If, instead, I found a way to get a majority of elected representatives to make it a government program, and take money out of your paycheck to go toward that cause, you'd have every right to be angry, because you don't owe those small businessmen anything.
People like to blame the vitriol on the media. The anger happens because activists who think government should be used as a tool to define our society are using it to take money from people by force rather than convince them to contribute voluntarily, and people in California and Pennsylvania are trying to tell people in Mississippi and Wyoming how to live their lives.
If people in Wyoming wanted the values and lifestyle of California, they could move there.
The morally appropriate way to fund free healthcare for the poor would be to start a lean, efficient charity and collect voluntary donations, run a PR campaign to make it fashionable for medical professionals to donate a portion of their time, (some already do,) get the big pharmaceutical companies to offer special programs for medications for the poor, (which they now have created on their own,) and leave donors with the good feeling which comes from helping one's fellow man.
Instead, we're now going to do it by force, further bloat our most inefficient mechanism for providing services, hire 16,00 new government goons to enforce a new tax, threaten fines and jail to deal with those who don't share the priority, and make taxpayers resent the poor, and vice versa.
I don't try to coerce other people to live their lives or spend their money as I see fit, and expect the same. Talk radio and Fox News are not the cause of the anger, they're the
result of the anger.