Does anybody remember the Left?

[GoneFishin]

35. Yes, but notice the parallels to the right wing's shiny trinkets.

On the right, politicians bloviate about abortion, prayer in schools, family values, etc.. to draw in low information voters with intangible emotional issues. All shiny trinkets having no economic value to their base, while at the same time promoting policies that shift anything of economic or affluential value into the hands of corporations and the rich.

I don't really see to much difference between that strategy, and the dem strategy.

Yes, the Affordable Care Act was better than nothing. But notice that single payer was taken off the table before the process even began because single payer would have squeezed the health insurance companies' profits. And every single instance, without exception that I can note, when the good of the public had to be balanced against the special interests, the dems have bent over.