Brian Thompson of United Healthcare was shot dead yesterday. After he was shot and killed, there was a curious reaction unrecognized by the media. Memes and celebrations have already begun by those that see corporate greed as a danger to them or their families. Indeed, this crosses the usual left-right boundaries, with commentators of many political persuasions coming together to point out United Healthcare had twice the percentage of denials as the industry standard.
Funny enough, United Healthcare recently denied me for a vaccine I’m supposed to get, so I guess we can add me to the list of suspects (joke).
This is no laughing matter. A man’s dead. I don’t cheer for that. But I must echo what I’ve said in the past. When people get angry, they do things they would never otherwise do. Unmet needs are a hell of a drug. To an extent, this is manageable through law, and where people violate the law, they should be held accountable. But if we create through legal action and inaction economic conditions where guns are widely accessible and people are being economically squeezed, eventually there will be more armed and angry people than there are people to enforce the law, and societal order will break down pretty quick. This isn’t a threat. It’s my honest observation and assessment of the world. Said another way, bullets are cheaper than therapy. Likewise, people celebrating a death are looking for an outlet for their anger.
This is one of the reasons I was so adamant about being a beacon with regard to corporate fraud. In the old days people fought and died in labor disputes. Unions and legal recourse were a compromise. I aimed to show people we could use words to fight back against the dirty things being done to us. In my view, we’re now entering a frankly psychotic period in history where anything done in the name of the dollar is justified under the law and people feel helpless. People feel like the law is being used as a sword against the working class and a shield for those who would exploit them. As the number of people that feel that way grows, we approach very volatile, scary times.
I don’t know if any of the politicians or judges I write to follow my stuff. But now is the time for action. Now is the time to realize and recognize that some people are GLAD a man is dead because to them he is a symbol of a system of governance that is oppressive and allows oppression of the people by the unelected. And if we continue on the trajectory we’re on where all of you stand around letting corporate players screw working people there will be more blood on your hands — and most assuredly some of you will die too. Again, not a threat, an observable and objective assessment of the trajectory that we are headed in as a society and human nature as a whole, using history as a gentle guide.
Conceded, of course, that we don’t know the actual shooter’s motives. They’re irrelevant for this discussion anyway. The visceral pleasure some are feeling in the wake of Brian Thompson’s shooting is the point. And I lay the blame firmly on the policymakers that have, through cowardice and callousness, allowed such feelings to thrive.
As of writing there are many reasons I have for coming to this conclusion. Because I cannot speak more on this topic at this time for myriad reasons I invite my readers and all of my friends in government to ponder why Christopher Day believes people have lost faith in the rule of law and why that will lead to, again, a very scary place.
But you know what will take us away from that very scary place?
Free healthcare and higher wages. Meeting the needs of a growing and modern population.
Choice is yours.
Choice is only mine if we make me president in 2028. Someone like me could solve these problems in a few short months with the wide-ranging powers the judiciary and legislature handed to the executive branch in the last decades.
I’ll be eligible. Think it over, America.
Make murder bad again?
Or turn it off and pretend what people talk about when they’re anonymous doesn’t have any impact on reality.
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