Beautiful Revolutionary: Che Guevara Remembered

[GatoGordo]

25. Their hatred for all things "right wing"

far exceeds their humanity. Some Democrats are that way.

Years ago, I went to a local debate between two prospective candidates for a contested state Senate seat. When the Republican was asked what would he support in order to have universal, comprehensive and low cost healthcare, he said, "It would have to be revenue neutral". I thought that was a reasonable answer. At the very least, he wasn't opposed to universal healthcare.

The same question was asked differently to the Democrat. "Would you support a plan that provided low cost, universal and comprehensive healthcare if it lowered taxes on the wealthy?" Her response? "NO! The wealthy need to feel the pain."

WTF? All I could do was sit there with my mouth open. She cared more about "political purity" than doing the right thing. Talk about cut off your nose to spite your face. Of course, her opponent ran with it (painted her as an extremist who only cared about punishing success), and won the Senate seat.

Its infuriating. We Democrats have our zealots too. As we see with the above forum troll, he would gladly see others suffer so that he could be "politically pure".