Not Serious

The more I watch what is going on in this country around health care reform the more apparent it becomes that a large majority of this country are just plain weak thinkers and not really serious about the challenges we face as a nation and a world. The number of people that have latched on to the Obama birth certificate insanity is enough to justify this conclusion but it is only the most obvious.
How many people that are using Medicare don't seem to realize that it is government run health care?
How many of the reform naysayers are just simply ignoring the fact that nearly 50 million of their fellow Americans are without a health insurance safety net and that one even moderately serious medical problem will bankrupt them if they can even manage to find a way to pay for care?
How many of the 'teabaggers' or whatever they are that are doing the work of the health insurance industry by disrupting Democratic town hall meetings on reform actually know what they are doing to the future of the American way of life? Do these people want the American political dialogue to just be thuggery? Are they so afraid of rational discussion and logical process that they will do anything to stop the dialogue?
How many of the folks that are dead set against modernizing American health care, or at least bringing it up to the standard of other countries, understand what countries like France, Sweden, Japan and other more progressive countries have and how it improves their ability to compete with the U.S. on the world economic stage?
How many of these 'status quo fans' understand that so far this year the health care industry has spent nearly $250 million lobbying against health care reform and what that says?

This particular time in our country is what I like to call a 'Darwinian moment' and we have to ask ourselves whether the people of this nation have what it takes and thus deserve to survive. The key to survival is to understand your environment and where possible adapt your behavior in such a way as to optimize your chances of survival. There are always accidents and unforeseen events but survival is a game of chance and doing what you can to make the odds swing in your favor. It sure looks like to me that a large portion of this country is doing just the opposite. Health care is at the forefront right now but following close behind is the environment and several other things that have the potential cause great swaths of the world's population to feel the sharp teeth of natural selection.