{"id":16451,"date":"2017-10-25T10:32:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T15:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=16451"},"modified":"2017-10-25T10:32:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T15:32:39","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-issue-2-response-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2017\/10\/25\/letter-to-the-editor-issue-2-response-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: Issue 2 Response #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I cannot imagine being so detached from my fellows\u2019 suffering that I\u2019d argue for denying someone life-saving medicine because \u2018it would cost the state money\u2019. If the state is not here to spend money on its citizens to help them, then what good is it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I worked as a medical interpreter for years, and I personally witnessed the suffering of people who couldn\u2019t afford their prescriptions, sometimes to fatal conclusions. I\u2019m also the daughter of Chilean political dissidents, born into a dictatorship. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reactionary pieces accusing socialism of the greatest evils unleashed upon mankind remind me of Pinochet\u2019s propaganda (which of course were manufactured by the CIA). It\u2019s unfortunate that a significant number of Americans, like Mr. Wilson, have no idea what socialism actually is, and are basing their opinions upon decades of indoctrination from the McCarthy era and the Red Scare. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps next time Mr. Wilson tries to argue against healthcare reform, he could phrase himself in ways that do not make him sound like a villain in a role-playing game<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its servants are like ghouls who feed not on the flesh of dead men [\u2026]\u201d) and, instead, could argue without appealing to emotion while claiming his opposition does nothing but appeal to emotion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a quote-socialist-unquote, I\u2019d be more than glad to share my experiences growing up in a quote-socialist-unquote \u2018third-world\u2019 country that, despite being ravaged by a dictatorship, still found itself capable of providing all its citizens with basic healthcare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That, I think, is actual virtue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Javiera Castro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paralegal (PAR.S.AAS) Student<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pre-Law<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot imagine being so detached from my fellows\u2019 suffering that I\u2019d argue for denying someone life-saving medicine because \u2018it would cost the state money\u2019. If the state is not here to spend money on its citizens to help them, then what good is it? 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