Let's see......a couple of anonymous DU'ers---- or...............

[patrice]

81. Senator Sanders said that from day 1 of the PP & ACA, TTE, it's not what he had wanted but it IS

something he and those so inclined CAN work with. Ask Thom Hartman, Sanders said that on his regular Friday call-in right after passage of the PP & ACA and some "Lefties" have been carefully pretending otherwise ever since.

Working to make the PP&ACA more valid will create an authentically strong INVOLVED grassroots constituency, amongst care givers and care receivers, and hence more widely valid policies and programs; all of that is better than being handed some generic piece of something with a more or less authentic label "Single Payer" on it that may or may not have had the constituency to survive. This is our first step in learning how to care for one another and that's a good thing. Hell yes, I would like to have been handed the perfect Single Payer, but this IS the real world, so those who CARE about people are going to have to WORK for it and MAKE it ours.

I beg all of your indulgence on my use of quotation marks on "Lefties". There's just so much at stake, everything, and widely differing 3rd-whatever forces have so much to gain by coalescing temporarily, long enough to split crucial margins in the name of _________________ (whatever *A*N*Y*O*N*E* wants to fill that blank with). Think about it.