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In reply to the discussion: Obama "Open to Compromise".... [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)after every broken promise re-write history. The PO not being in the HC bill was a disaster here. Had there been a choice other than the totally off the wall insane Republican Party, that issue would have lost this election for Democrats. It did lose the 2010 election which angered those of us who worked so hard to get control of Congress. The idiocy of the decisions made by the right wing of the party, lost that election.
It remains one of the issues raised by voters to those of us who have the job of trying to convince people to vote rather than allow the radical right to take over.
Obviously you need to talk to voters on the ground here before making declarations that have no relationship to reality. People's LIVES is at the top of the list for voters in a country where tens of thousands DIE for lack of HC. Your lack of knowledge and understanding of this fact is simply stunning.
Independents have no loyalty to any party and if the Republicans had not been so stupid and had not allowed their most insane members to take over, and had managed to even pretend to be rational, and if Progressives had not worked so hard despite their disappointment and in spite of the operatives running around screaming 'stfu' which was ignored thankfully we would have lost this election also.
No good Democrat will ever stfu about important issues in this country, that's how you know a Dem when you meet one, so the would-be silencers hopefully have learned that lesson by now.
This is our party and we will never allow it to be taken over by the Right, as has been attempted. The mobilization now of all the Liberal groups combined with the major Unions and all Democrats is no longer waiting, or trusting, as we did after winning in 2008 to get the issues they want addressed, dealt with this time. And we intend to take this party back from the right. That is going to be the focus of Democrats for the next four years.