"Making the perfect the enemy of the good."

[JCanete]

78. I certainly don't always know. Sometimes I'm wrong. I'm not interested in going to the grave being

wrong either, just to try to win a pissing contest. When I recognize that I'm wrong I will absolutely cop to that fact.

I made an assumption that the plans were similar, and that one of the things Obama and Dems were trying to do was to go for a proposal that Republicans in another decade might have voted for. Turns out we'd need to go far further back to find sane, statesmen republicans...maybe to Nixon and Eisenhower. Well there was Romney's Romneycare, so maybe I'm being overly harsh.

As to brute force, I don't know what you're talking about. Nobody is advocating a coup or bloody revolution here. I'm advocating that we use our platform to inspire the public with big, clear ideas...not esoteric tweaks, not careful language that both offends and inspires as few people as possible...like "we're going to work with so and so to get something we all want..."

Because we need it to be the public who puts the pressure on Congress. Without that, there is absolutely no incentive for the GOP to do anything it isn't already doing, and there's little incentive for blue-dog dems to risk the wrath of the power-brokers in their states to bring to the people something they aren't even clamoring for and aren't even aware of could be done. There is no such thing as compromise with people who stand to lose nothing for refusing to compromise. All that looks like at the end of the day is appeasement. Giving up less to not give up more. It wins us nothing. It moves us in the wrong direction as a nation.