A blog post by Pejman (picture supplied) on Obamacare who writes something I often think but haven’t gotten around to writing myself. Happily he has, which is that everyone is perfectly capable of withstanding the pain felt by others. The one-one millionth of a nanosecond is an absolutely correct estimate based on my previous life amongst the left.

I am willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that there are a lot of people out there who are only pretending to be utilitarians about this entire calamity, and who would drop their faux-utilitarianism in one-one millionth of a nanosecond if it were their lives and fortunes being affected by a bad policy, and if the bad policy in question were being pushed by a president and a party they disapproved of.

I am further willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that the real motivation of the faux-utilitarians is to shut people up, to keep them from complaining and dissenting, to shame them into accepting a deal that is plainly against their interests, a deal that hurts them right in the pocketbook and right when they need quality healthcare the most.

It is their allegiance to the left that comes first and foremost and they could not care less about the harm it does to others if the harm has been inflicted in the name of some variant of the socialist nightmare.