AEON
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Because the majority of your brothers and sisters (you know, your fellow citizens) don't want it in its current form.Why? Why should there be ANY compromise on the ACA?
Because the majority of your brothers and sisters (you know, your fellow citizens) don't want it in its current form.Why? Why should there be ANY compromise on the ACA?
I can't believe you're all still arguing about Universal Health Care.
I can't believe you're all still arguing about Universal Health Care.
Because the majority of your brothers and sisters (you know, your fellow citizens) don't want it in its current form.
I can't believe you're all still arguing about Universal Health Care.
Representatives are elected to govern, not to protest.
Because the majority of your brothers and sisters (you know, your fellow citizens) don't want it in its current form.
It would be fun to revisit the Wisconsin union ruckus from a couple of years ago to see if you felt the same way when Democratic state representatives fled and hide in Illinois to prevent the elected Republican legislature and elected Republican governor Scott Walker from passing right to work laws.
Both parties are a farce and the interaction between them is somehow 10 times worse. You'd think people would have figured out by now that both options are a dead end and choose another one, but we're in a bad cycle of defensive voting to cancel out the greater of two evils, so we can't actually choose a good option.
Unfortunately, many Americans are either too lazy or too careless to start looking into other political parties. Some may rightfully believe voting for a third party would be a waste, but others have no clue about the other parties out there. They either don't care, don't want to care, or are too afraid to care. I'm seeing a lot of people like this and it scares and upsets me.
I do agree that one of the overlooked things is how much blame for this lies at the feet if the American people, especially those in the "suicide caucus" districts. Certainly their influence has been assisted by gerrymandering, whipped into states of fear and loathing by Fox News, and given easy targets for whatever rage they feel (and reading conservative websites, rage seems to be the overriding emotion). Fortunately, this is a minority (30 house seats?) within an out-of-power party. It's not most Americans. It's not even most Republicans.
In a representative democracy, we get the government we deserve. We the people are partly to blame.
Because the Democrats simply DO NOT HAVE the equivalent of a Tea Party caucus on the left. Why is that so hard to accept for you, AEON? I've asked you over and over again to point out a group of individuals on their side who have as much say in governance from a minority position as the Tea Party has and you have just glossed over it.
Unfortunately, many Americans are either too lazy or too careless to start looking into other political parties. Some may rightfully believe voting for a third party would be a waste, but others have no clue about the other parties out there. They either don't care, don't want to care, or are too afraid to care. I'm seeing a lot of people like this and it scares and upsets me.
That number was from a recent CNN poll. I provided a link. Most other polls have had similar results since 2010.^
Of the 56% or whatever number AEON keeps citing - how many of them truly believe that the ACA imposes death panels, mandatory suicide counselling for grandmas, Obama will make them get rid of their own doctor and replace him/her with another one, etc?
Sheer ignorance is a great contributor to that number.
Not a chance that these corporate overlords will permit the Tea Party to sink the markets. You can count on it.
I don't see what's so shocking.
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Of the 56% or whatever number AEON keeps citing - how many of them truly believe that the ACA imposes death panels, mandatory suicide counselling for grandmas, Obama will make them get rid of their own doctor and replace him/her with another one, etc?
Sheer ignorance is a great contributor to that number.
My husband is an American economist at a global bank and he was just telling me yesterday that the amount of disgust on Wall Street at the Tea Party and the GOP is reaching levels he's never seen before. Not a chance that these corporate overlords will permit the Tea Party to sink the markets. You can count on it.
This isn't about shock. It's about the damage they are doing to this country to prove this political point, it's about the hypocrisy of their platform.
And I do not believe for a second that the Democrats would behave any different if roles were reversed. Especially with the current media circus environment. These people are politicians first, a member of a political party second.
but there's no evidence that supports what you believe.