... House Progressives Will Seek Single-Payer Plan If Mandate Goes Down.

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36. Ah the Pessimism packaged as Pragmatism wail!

The utter fear of any set back seems is the end all for some. I wonder what they'd do in a war, refuse to fight to win if any single battle might be lost?
Resistance is futile! You will be assimilated, moderately, near the center.....
I wonder if there is a single historical example of any great accomplishment of any kind that was not met with huge resistance that simply had to be faced? Are there any societal or even individual examples of actual greatness that came to be without any objection from rivals, without opponents flinging rhetorical absolutes, without the status quo claiming to be not just the way things are, but they way things must be? Are there any heroes in history who looked at a diffiuclut goal and said 'we must wait to try until victory is both effortless and assured'? Or did they just go forward as if all good things are worth some work, perhaps even worth a failure before the success. Did Gandhi drop his work when the British showed some will to resist? 'Oh, this is futile' he said, which is why he is called The Mahatma, he knew when to pack it in and accept preordained defeat....