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

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216. In the meantime millions more will suffer

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including many of my friends with disabilities who are going to see their medical care compromised. Including, possibly, my partner and myself.

But of course, Sarandon won't feel a thing. Neither did Nader when Bush was installed.

Must be nice to be able to sacrifice other people's lives in the service of your own pet cause. Must be grand to see what's happening (including the distinct possibility of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula) and think it all okay cause it's in the service of a "greater cause."

I forget who said this--some British statesman/politician--but it's as true today and in America as it was back then and in Britain--
"There may only be a marginal difference between Labor and the Tories, but millions of people live inside those margins."

I find Sarandon's cavalier attitude toward the possible suffering of others disgusting. If she believes in "the revolution" she should put her own body on the line--not others. How about a hunger strike like Gandhi, until we have the health care system she wants? Friends of mine were arrested at the Capitol protesting the attempted repeal of Obamacare. My partner and I would have been there, but we're both too seriously ill to travel. It's our health care might be cut, including my partner's chemo.

You think maybe if write Susan, she'd be willing to slip us a couple of hundred thousand out of the millions she makes advertising products made in the Third World, to defray the cost of my love's chemotherapy?

No, I didn't think so.

Edited to add:

I'm old enough to remember when Reagan was elected, and various progressive friends of mine said the same thing then you're saying now. That people would mobilize. That better to get hard right policies under Reagan than middle of the road policies under Carter. That Reagan would be SO bad people would get angry and the country would shift left. Nope. The country shifted right instead.

And people here have already recounted the whole "no difference between Gore and Bush" travesty that was the Nader/Sarandon line in 2000.

Think of this: Carter was working on two main policies when he was defeated. The first was sustainable energy. He put solar panels on the White House roof, wanted to invest big time in solar, wind, geothermal. His second major priority was Mideast peace. The Camp David accord was supposed to be the first step in a comprehensive Mideast peace treaty. This was BEFORE there were significant Israeli settlements on the West Bank, BEFORE the first Intifada.

How much further would we be along now if we'd started serious investment in solar in 1980, instead of 2008? What would the world look like now if Reagan hadn't ditched Carter's peace initiative?

I hate to be the one to tell you, but there's no "revolution" coming. Or if it does come, it'll be a revolution of the far-right, and will look even worse than what we're seeing now.