r/tuesday • u/JustKidding456 Believes Jesus is Messiah & God; Centre-right • 17d ago

“After UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing, Doctors Speak Out.” Wall Street Journal, December 14, 2024.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zV9qk5rIaM
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u/Maximus_2698 Right Visitor 17d ago edited 17d ago

The lionization of Luigi Mangione is grotesque. A spoiled, privileged, rich kid murdering someone in cold blood because of their profession should never be turned into a folk hero. All the supportive rhetoric on Reddit and elsewhere will only encourage copycats and is deeply authoritarian.

The simple fact is that while most Americans aren't satisfied with the American healthcare system in the abstract, a majority of Americans are satisfied with the cost of their own personal healthcare.

The primary difference between our system and a system like Canada's or the UK's is who picks up the tab. For us its private insurance, and for them it's the government. I'm sure the same people arguing that this murder shows we need to overhaul our healthcare system would not feel the same way if the NHS director in the UK was killed in the same fashion.

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u/permajetlag Left Visitor 17d ago

All the supportive rhetoric on Reddit and elsewhere [...] is deeply authoritarian.

Can you explain this? I thought the anger was populist.

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u/LanceArmsweak Right Visitor 17d ago

It was/is. A truly bipartisan voter response. I’ve been noticing many politicians, media, and C class types now trying to say “no, it’s the people who are wrong.” Wondering if they all got the same briefing, “whip the peasants into form before they do something silly.”

I can’t escape how swiftly they moved on this, which honestly will only cause more divide.

Personally, I don’t agree with the act necessarily, but I get why it happened. It’s the same reason Trump won. There are a lot of angry people who feel unseen and life is fucking hard.

I’m surprised it doesn’t happen a lot more.

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u/marinqf92 Left Visitor 14d ago

There are a lot of angry people who feel unseen and life is fucking hard.

We are talking about an absurdly rich kid with all the privilege in the world, not some downtrodden sap who was grinded down by medical debt. The health care system didn't cause this, radical online politics did.