I'm ALL FOR single-payer, but I feel some of you are just not living in reality sometimes.

[kenny blankenship]

6. In June we will see for certain what reality is, won't we?

We will know whether or not you can legally force people-all the people- to buy a private businesses' product.

My own opinion is that you cannot. Now I have projected, contrary to my view of what ought to happen, that the Supreme Court will bend with the forces of corporate corruption which elevated most of them to their positions in the first place, and that they will give the individual mandate a pass for the sake of their party's campaign donors. But at this point, most observers seem to think they will prove me wrong, and strike it down.

I'm wondering how you're going to process that reality if it comes out badly for you.

Because unlike the mood of the electorate or the composition of legislative bodies or the wussiness/grit ratio of any particular President, this particular bit of reality that will be handed down in June will be definite and not subject to change anytime soon. THAT will be the real reality that must be faced up to.

When and if the only Constitutionally viable solution to the health care crisis is revealed to be Single Payer, will you stop blaming and attempting to lecture those of us who pointed that out from the start?

Maybe instead of berating people who have proven to have a better grasp of the political/ Constitutional terrain that health care reform must eventually cross, you should be asking whether all those clever clever people who patronizingly assured us that the Individual Mandate would have no problems passing Constitutional muster were not full of shit?