I REALLY miss the unrec today with these posts griping about the SCOTUS decision!

[joshcryer]

68. Progress is difficult in a highly volatile environment.

In such an environment surface views are better when they're tied to progressive ideals rather than ideological ideals.

ie, rather than bitch and moan about how not everyone gets free food for the rest of their life without ever having to work I practically, pragmatically, progressively champion food stamps.

It would be so trivial to just rail on and on every day about how the cost of food is going up, etc, etc. About how I eat freaking canned beans and rice because it's the cheapest food available. But I don't.

But that's what people do about health care, either every day or almost every day they rail about it. You know how many people in my family have any kind of coverage at all? 1. My mom. She got Medicare after she turned 65.

People latch on to an imperfect piece of legislation, make no overtures about fixing it (indeed, the argument generally goes that it would've been better if it failed and then something else could come in its place), and rail on about it as if it's the worst thing ever.

Partisanship, btw, is what we need more of, not this bullshit bipartisan, everyone can contribute shit. Obama's failed public option was precisely because he was a post-partisan stooge, for all intents. I'm just glad that as a Constitutional Law Professor he was wise enough to know the needed, progressive, mandate was constitutional, despite all the cries to the contrary by the right wing.