{"id":4769,"date":"2018-01-04T10:27:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T15:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zeroaggressionproject.org\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2018-01-04T10:27:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T15:27:31","slug":"introducing-single-payer-lever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeroaggressionproject.org\/perry-willis\/introducing-single-payer-lever\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you find the single payer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The single-payer is even more well-hidden than Waldo!\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZAPtheState\/status\/948942121209335808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Retweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Statists use words in tricky ways&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What many statists call conservative or liberal is really more appropriately called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeroaggressionproject.org\/mental-lever\/left-statists-and-right-statists\/\">right-statist and left-statist<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>What many right-statists call national security is really <a href=\"https:\/\/downsizedc.org\/afghan-enemy-creation\/\">enemy creation<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeroaggressionproject.org\/mental-lever\/statist-isolationism\/\">military isolationism<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>What many left-statists call <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeroaggressionproject.org\/perry-willis\/socialism\/\">socialism is highly anti-social<\/a>, and what they call progressive usually achieves backward results.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Orwell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Orwell<\/a> warned us about this kind of linguistic tricksterism in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Politics_and_the_English_Language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his writings<\/a>, including the classics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/1984-Signet-Classics-George-Orwell\/dp\/0451524934\/ref=sr_1_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>1984<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Animal-Farm-Fairy-Modern-Classic-ebook\/dp\/B003K16PUU\/ref=sr_1_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Animal Farm<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.zeroaggressionproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/George-Orwell-wrote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4772\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.zeroaggressionproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/George-Orwell-wrote-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re making our own effort to counter these tricks in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeroaggressionproject.org\/mental-levers\/\">Mental Lever<\/a> mini-articles. You&#8217;ll find most of this linguistic work in our newest Mental Levers collection, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeroaggressionproject.org\/mental-levers\/our-lexicon\/\">Our Lexicon<\/a>. Some of it appears in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeroaggressionproject.org\/mental-levers\/statism-statist-myths\/\">Statism &amp; Statist Myths<\/a> collection. Our latest entry is in the Our Lexicon collection. It unpacks the fraudulent left-statist use of the term <strong>single-payer<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeroaggressionproject.org\/mental-lever\/single-payer-lie\/\"><strong>Are advocates of single-payer lying, perhaps even to themselves?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check it out on our website and then leave your comments!<\/p>\n<p><em>ZAP The State and have a nice day,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Perry Willis &amp; Jim Babka<br \/>\nCo-creators, Zero Aggression Project<\/p>\n<p><strong>Does this way of thinking intrigue you?<\/strong> Want to learn more or participate in creating such a society? Then join the Zero Aggression Project using this subscription form&#8230;<\/p>\n[mc4wp_form id=&#8221;4582&#8243;]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s even more well-hidden than Waldo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[460,25,461,64,8,40,462,463,29],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Can you find the single payer? - ZAP - Zero Aggression Project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There&#039;s no single payer in any single-payer scheme. 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