
{"id":6676,"date":"2009-08-14T06:18:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T14:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=6676"},"modified":"2009-08-14T06:18:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T14:18:51","slug":"ginning-up-the-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/08\/14\/ginning-up-the-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"Ginning up the anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good people are going hungry tonight all over this land, and right here in neighborhoods scattered around these little towns.<\/p>\n<p>Jobs have dried up. Hiring is on hold. Hours are down. <\/p>\n<p>Benefits are going away. More and more people are joining the ranks of the uninsured, while the ranks of the underinsured are discovering the consequences of being so, one serious illness at a time.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPerhaps we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard so many ugly, damnable lies of late about health care and the fix we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in because the truth is a good bit uglier.<\/p>\n<p>It is much easier to debate a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153what if\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d as in, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What if paying for a living will consultation really means a death panel for grandma?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d than it is to confront grandma\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impending bankruptcy and, eventually, our own at the hands of a system that has enriched a few at the expense of the many.<\/p>\n<p>Discourse is all about lies these days, open and boldfaced and retold and replayed online and on cable ad nauseum (then run, days later, on the pages of this nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s metro dailies). They repeat the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153what ifs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the president\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birth because it is far easier and entertaining a subject than, say, veterans sleeping under overpasses.<\/p>\n<p>You might chalk up this meltdown to a kind of realty-show entertainment we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re partaking of to deal with the malaise of the Great Recession.<\/p>\n<p>But when Nazi is the flavor of the month and gun-toting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153patriots\u00e2\u20ac\u009d talking about tyrants feel comfortable packing heat at town halls, all bets are off. The media, even those printed on old trees, have a responsibility not to feed the fires of hate.<\/p>\n<p>Actual hardship is taking place in this country, while the cameras are pointed at those trying to gin up more anger and channel the vast amount already out there for their cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good people are going hungry tonight all over this land, and right here in neighborhoods scattered around these little towns. Jobs have dried up. Hiring is on hold. Hours are down. Benefits are going away. More and more people are joining the ranks of the uninsured, while the ranks of the underinsured are discovering the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6677,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions\/6677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}