To the people who keep saying "get over it" about the far-left's sabotage of our nation:

[moriah]

189. The current "far left" are sabotaging those goals, not helping achieve them.

Obama, who many of these "purist Dems" attacked, got DOMA and DADT repealed, and gays can marry now thanks to his Court nominee picks.

He did his best to get the most vulnerable people affordable care, and even if the ACA may eventually be repealed, it should only be in the way DADT was.

As people who remember the hate against gays, particularly among soldiers in the early '90s, knows... DADT was considered by Conservatives to be a sign of the Apocalypse. Gays could serve! They couldn't bully out servicemembers who were disliked by accusing them of it! The world was coming to an end!

It wasn't a perfect law, and neither is the ACA. The real good thing in the legislation is for states to figure out state-level single payer, which states that can make it work should work on 2018 ballot initiatives for. When those prove viable we can then repeal the ACA and replace it with proven single payer.

I have yet to see the current "far left" advocate for civil rights for maligned groups -- what FDR and JFK did. (Edit to add: FDR had racial issues and his Social Security program ended up discriminating against many AA groups, but his New Deal did address both rural and urban poverty and knew they'd have to be dealt with differently. Urban at that time didn't mean "black.)

They ONLY are advocating for economic justice, not social justice as well. And economic justice is about as effective for "trickle down" to social justice as "trickle-down economics" is. We can, and must, advocate for both.