While I'm not a fan of your tone (not that of your parent poster), I agree entirely with the bones of your post. I do not think their experience as stated is anywhere near... universal.

Indeed, I'll admit my tone can get quite peevish after reading for the Nth time about how people are being silenced (note the irony there). It's nothing other than trying to create a victim/persecution complex to sell your point of view and it's an intellectually low tactic.

You wouldn't know, would you, with an attitude like that? Look at this thread. "The NHS is a national religion" is a cliché because it's true. There are loads of comments saying people are irrational about it. The country has too many people who melt down and viciously attack anyone who tells the truth - the NHS is a crap idea, always was and needs to be abolished. Go canvassing in the North with that idea and see what happens.