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Ugly rears its head in the health care debate

I am appalled at the recent behavior of Americans addressing the health care debate. According to the New York Times and a variety of local papers, town hall meetings are turning hostile, eliminating communication between audience and speaker (a speaker who usually has to escape before he or she needs "health care"). What is happening in these forums? And what are these hostile Americans thinking? What's happening in these hostile forums is that Americans, most of whom have read nothing about the current state of health care, are NOT thinking, They are listening to TV pundits telling them that the current Democratic administration is leading us all to socialism and that we must protest change. Instead of reading a variety of imformation, most Americans watch these TV talking heads--who are also undereducated aoout health care--and believe what they hear. Don't Americans realize that these talking heads are just that? They are EARNING THEIR LIVING fomenting the uproar ...