My 10th grade history teacher was a communist. Not ‘communist’ in the way that I personally describe all of the people (Democrats) who are in fact communists but just don’t know that they are communists yet. I mean that she fully said she was a communist. Nice lady.
At some point in class we were talking about socialized medicine, since that’s important for 10th grade history (yes, they are indoctrinating your kids) and she said “well what about the fire department?” It’s a cliched argument you’ve heard 1,000 times about how the fire department is socialist because we pool our money together blah blah etc.
My response continues to be one of my favorite analogies to this day……which means I peaked intellectually at 15, but whatever. I said something along the lines of
“Yeah but if your chance of getting sick during your life was the same as the chance of your house catching on fire at some point AND your doctor could cure cancer by driving to your house and splashing water on you face then socialized medicine would be quite sensible and inexpensive and non-controversial.”
The point I forgot to make at the time, which occurred to me later in the day, like George Costanza with the Jerk Store comeback, was that, whatever the circumstance, you still wouldn’t want the federal government to do it. Imagine if the fire department was federal. They would send a group of useless jackasses with parking passes and pensions to your house to document the fire, four or five days after the fact. Then their priority would be to make sure no trans or non-binary people died, in which case they would need to construct a memorial, followed by issuing you a fine for $126,000 for polluting the air and shit.
So no, the fire department isn’t a good argument for communism, you simpletons.
Our current public health apparatus, local, state, and federal, is a good example of how the fire department itself is only a few psychopaths away from tyranny. Imagine if that mentally ill prostitute Rochelle Walensky, who absolutely did not vaccinate her kids by the way, was running your local fire department. Fire does spread after all, so ‘15 days to stop the spread’ would work nicely. Now you’re locked in your house so you can monitor the stove and inventory your candles.
I can hear it now, with every single stupid bitch in the United States talking about how
“I stay at home and monitor the stove to protect you, and me, and our community.”
Please go friggin blow yourself you imaginary idiot in this fake scenario that I have crafted that still absolutely would happen if Democrats got a stranglehold on the fire safety industry.
And sadly I just remembered that the CDC is not keeping track of whether or not their employees are vaccinated so now I need to go destroy all of my furniture. Enjoy your day.