Obamacare: It's Obama's signature achievement

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39. Again you are conflating enthusiastic support

with being in total agreement with you as the only acceptable thing and that is never going to happen in the real world.

Is there a serious argument that we would be closer to single payer with no ACA?

I could as well call whoever you want to win to be your dreamy hero. That kind of talk is just being mean. Maybe people really do want this person in the office and want him to succeed as well as possible and want to set the ground so as to make more progress in the future under the next D President? Maybe they really think that cheerleading on the D President could lead to more D midterm voters and a Congress that will vote for more progress? The D Senate we had wasn't progressive enough for a public option. We should have cheered Obama for wanting one and blamed the Republicans that we can't have it, and that way we'd get more Dem voters out to vote for a Senate that might allow for it.

Just blaming the D president as "weak" didn't work. It did not pull one Dem leftward. It just got them out of office in favor of Republicans.