Why don't people help out their fellow human beings instead of blaming the victim for everything? I fear we have become even more judgemental since the internet allows us to make anonymous comments.
Sure, there are things she could have done. But she was already pretty busy; did she have time to hustle around the insurance companies? did she even know that was an option? Sad. She was working hard, like the conservatives say she should. But they failed to provide her with basic health care. Sucks.
Agreed.
At no point, from the more negative comments, were there even the tiniest sincere hints, that for someone who was doing exactly what the far right claims poor people don't do--busting their ass working, taking responsibility--of empathy. I mean real empathy. But...they can't. Because in their mind, even the smallest amount of concern displayed for the now dead mother of three, is perhaps an admission that busting your ass working and taking responsibility isn't an infallible, sacrosanct capitalistic life mantra that provides if only you work hard and belieeeeeeeeve. That maybe our current incarnation of capitalistic, health care expansion reluctant states sometimes, oft times, just completely fucks over and yes...can contribute to killing those abiding by the mantra. Gawd forbid you show even a scintilla of sympathy, that might as a result beg questions in the process.
I mean how utterly fucked up is it that to support your particular ideology/beliefs demands, that to do so means, you must remove anything from the equation, even sympathy, if doing so might ask you to question said ideology/belief. That is some grade A, scary ass cult shit right there.
That mother, Ms. Drill, *deserved* better than dropping to the floor and dying in a strangers home, next to a fucking vacuum cleaner that she was trying to sell, because she couldn't afford life saving medication, due to the States unwillingness to expand medicaid. There is not a god damn thing that is noble about this. Which, I might add, I saw coldly implied in the Orlando Weekly thread. I paraphrase, "Welp, her children can be proud that while they may have been poor, their momma was trying her best not to be a taker." That was the closet fucking thing I saw to sympathy from the, "all poor people are lazy", crowd. God damnit.
