Increasingly convinced the core divide in humanity is between those who suffer a traumatic, destabilizing event (as we all do) and believe everybody else should have to, too, and those who suffer such an event and hope they are the last person ever to do so.
Not far from the "stern father" vs. "nurturing parent" dichotomy that convincingly explains the different mindsets driving conservative vs. progressive political beliefs.
My conservative, Roman catholic father who beat my ass for being disrespectful or having the nerve to say that being gay wasn't a sin routinely says that single payer is never gonna happen because "no one paid for my heart surgery. "
I got out. Everyone can if we help.
