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This video of of a health care protest (pro vs. con) from Ohio is extremely disturbing, especially at the :50 mark when anti-reform protesters yell and throw money a a man holding a sign claiming he has Parkinson's. "No handouts!" they scream at him.

David Kurtz over at TalkingPointsMemo sums what's really going on here:

Those guys screaming about "handouts" would be perfectly at home at a rally in the 1990s, or the 80s, or the 70s and so on. This isn't new, and it's not original. The social and cultural currents running through this debate exist independent of the debate, and the anger can't be tempered or avoided by procedural fig leafs that few people inside Washington understand or by better messaging. At the end of the day, even abandoning reform won't calm that kind of anger.

And yet, the ugliness of that moment at :50 is palpable, disturbing, and frankly, extremely sad...

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