Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"And no, dealing with this shit, and with the health conditions that mean I need to carry health insurance, without lapse, for the rest of my life or I will be forever after uninsurable if not completely bankrupt if not dead, is not a fucking learning experience. You know what, I learned everything I needed to learn in the first two weeks, and what I had to learn is that this country is profoundly fucked up when it comes to the concept of the social safety net and the bullshit puritan libertarian values buried so strongly in our culture to poison the roots of everything that comes after it is fucking fucked up. The deeply-rooted American concept of deciding who is worthy to live and who is worthy of basic quality-of-life and who is worthy of food and housing and quality medical care and who is worthy of the inherent dignity of humanity is and always will be completely fucked up, and people who don't see that fact and choose instead to turn it into some political grandstanding are, in point of actual fact, fucking sociopaths." -- synecdochic, 2011-03-19 [underline emphasis in original as italics (actually <em>, rendered as italics in my browser); bold emphasis added by me (because I'd been tempted to quote just that part before I changed my mind and grabbed the whole paragraph)]

(Thanks to realinterrobang for quoting this earlier)