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In two or three or four generations I hope the children of our children’s children are wise enough to look back on our generation with kindness. With more of a smirk and sense of wonder at our naivety and unwillingness to do what is right by our fellow man, rather than a bitter disdain for a people that could, on one hand, preach family values and, on the other, allow their neighbors to die, uninsured, as a sacrifice to the all mighty dollar.
I hope they choose to look at the bigger picture and see what has led us to this place where people are willing to vehemently oppose healthcare for people cut from the same cloth as themselves. People who may have been forced into surviving by whatever means they can, even if it means working for a company that doesn’t offer healthcare for its employees just so they can put food on the table.
I hope that they are far enough removed from us, however, that they, no matter how hard they try, cannot quite comprehend how what were otherwise decent, hard working people, associated healthcare with being a “personal ATM”. People who believed that healthcare was a privilege, not an inalienable right.
I hope that they are baffled at how we could have allowed private insurance companies, whose only goal is to turn a profit, to funnel tens of millions of dollars of those profits directly to the politicians who we elected to serve and protect us. The same politicians who, in turn, actively enabled an environment that allowed the least among us to whither and die.
I hope that they can understand the hypocrisy of a nation of people that claim to be a Nation of good, God fearing Christian people.
On the last day, Jesus will say to those on His right hand, “Come, enter the Kingdom. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was sick and you visited me.” Then Jesus will turn to those on His left hand and say, “Depart from me because I was hungry and you did not feed me, I was thirsty and you did not give me to drink, I was sick and you did not visit me.” These will ask Him, “When did we see You hungry, or thirsty or sick and did not come to Your help?” And Jesus will answer them, “Whatever you neglected to do unto the least of these, you neglected to do unto Me!”
I hope.
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