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In reply to the discussion: So now the talking point is that Obama destroyed chained CPI with his masterful brinksmanship. [View all]Recursion
(56,582 posts)I'm not kidding. It's really that bad. People don't understand policy but have strong opinions on it. And when I say they don't understand, I don't mean they come to the wrong conclusion, I mean the majority of Americans literally don't know what the basic words in question mean. They know spending, taxes, deficits, borrowing, entitlements, and welfare are bad, while investment, social security, growth, and surplus are good. They don't even see the basic contradictions there.
This is how the individual provisions of ACA poll well but the bill itself polls badly (this works both ways: the individual elements of the Contract With America polled well but as a whole it polled horribly). It's also why you can only move things a little bit at a time, and at the margins, and hope eventually it falls your way.