In Case You Missed This... Confirmation On What Many Of Us Believed Re: The Publc Option Fight

[eridani]

147. So doctors getting arrested in the Senate = "not invested enough"?

There were many universal health care rallies which the MSM chose to avoid covering. A tea party convention in Nashville with 600 people was hailed as a major movement, while the progressive meeting in Detroit attended by 15,000 was ignored. The strength of the opposition was a media creation, period. Outrage over Ryan's Medicare privatization was not nearly so well publicized.

Every single traditional Democratic constituency was in favor of a public option--the only ones against it were people who insisted on single payer instead.

Of course people like their insurance--85% of them don't get expensively sick. Their opinions about how good their insurance is are worthless, just like their opinions on how good their fire extinguishers are.

Obama and Dems like him have CREATED the political limits characteristic of the last 30 years by being gutless in advocating for the interests of the 99%. Conservatives have been spouting crazy bullshit over that same time period, constantly repeating it to the point where the MSM now treats extreme nonsense as serious policy discussion. Had Obama used the presidential bully pulpit to advocate for single payer as the only moral option, we might have gotten a public option as a compromise.