General lack of concern over the latest GOP ACA senate repeal

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38. It is vulnerable because enough self-identifed progressives who refused to vote for the Democratic

nominee in 2016, contributed to the situation we are in now, and have essentially put single payer on hold for at least four years, and probably longer, so please don't lecture us how President Obama threw a wrench into things. He didn't have the votes for single payer. The blue dogs made it very clear they would not vote for it, and they needed every vote or nothing would have occurred.

So the "single payer now baby", isn't going anywhere for at least four years, and those who are NOT "well-to-do-single people", who depend on expanded Medicaid. because of the ACA, and those who are subsidized for their premiums because of the ACA, are now facing the prospect losing that.

Perhaps Noam Chomsky said it best. Progressives who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton made a ‘bad mistake’

"Legendary linguist and activist Noam Chomsky thinks that progressives and left-wingers who didn’t want to vote for Hillary Clinton this year have badly miscalculated — and will now pay a very dear price"

“I think they [made] a bad mistake,” said Chomsky, who reiterated that it’s important to keep a “greater evil” from obtaining power, even if you’re not thrilled with the alternative. “I didn’t like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better than Trump’s on every issue I can think of.”
Chomsky also attacked the arguments made by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who argued that Trump’s election would at least shake up the system and provide a real rallying point for the left.
“[Zizek makes a] terrible point,” Chomsky told Hasan. “It was the same point that people like him said about Hitler in the early ’30s… he’ll shake up the system in bad ways.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/noam-chomsky-progressives-who-refused-to-vote-for-hillary-clinton-made-a-bad-mistake/