The country writing the human rights report card cannot guarantee its own citizens the right to see a doctor without financial ruin. This is not hypocrisy in the casual sense.
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America lectures the world about human rights.
It sends State Department reports grading other countries on their treatment of citizens.
It imposes sanctions when governments fail to meet its standards.
It funds NGOs and democracy promotion programs and civil society organizations to improve conditions for ordinary people in countries it has decided need improvement.
Meanwhile.
530,000 Americans file for medical bankruptcy every year.
100 million Americans carry medical debt.
28 million Americans have no health insurance at all.
The country writing the human rights report card cannot guarantee its own citizens the right to see a doctor without financial ruin.
This is not hypocrisy in the casual sense.
This is institutional, structural, deliberate hypocrisy, the kind that requires enormous energy to maintain.
The kind that produces entire think tanks and media ecosystems to explain why the richest country on earth simply cannot afford what every other rich country provides as a baseline.
Cannot afford it.
While spending over $1 trillion a year on the military that enforces the lectures.
posted by Satish Sharma at
02:14
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