Health Care "Duh" Bait

It’s interesting that people are showing up at health care discussions with the avowed purpose of disrupting discussion. “Interesting” in the same sense that root canal is interesting: i.e, painful and indicative of a hole in somebody’s head.

Why do they do this? The following possible motives occur to me.

1) Their opponent has valid ideas that they can’t refute so they want to keep people from hearing the ideas.

2) They think their opponent is wrong or is lying and everybody else is too stupid to realize it.

3) They are too ignorant or inarticulate to be able to expose the errors and untruths that their opponent is speaking.

4) They have been spreading lies about what their opponent is saying and they will be exposed as liars if people hear what the opponent is really saying.

5) They themselves are ignorant on the topic or too stupid to understand it, which will be revealed if serious discussion takes place.

6) They hate America and Americans and free speech and they want us to fail.

7) If people agree with their opponent then something will be done that costs them money, power or privilege, and they don’t want that regardless of the benefits to anybody else.

I’m not arguing in favor of anybody’s case here. I’m just saying that I have not figured out why anybody would intentionally prevent discussion of an important topic unless they are devoid of intelligence, honor, knowledge, integrity, objectivity, decency, courtesy and patriotism.

If anybody can come up with a reason for preventing discussion that suggests the preventer has any positive traits, I would sure like to hear them. 'Cause to be honest I am just coming up dry.