This fool--and Obama and the Democratic Party--has the problem that he is willing to accept something horrible, Obamacare, because it was the best they could do.
Fine.
Might even be true in a sense.
Whatever.
But the bigger problem has been the Democratic Party problem since FDR: the effectively right-wing core of the Democratic Party has never been in favor of any sort of universal health care and has never done anything to promote any sort of universal health care. There have been activists associated with the party in favor of Single Payer or National Health, but the party itself has been actively working against universal healthcare all along.
No, it was not going to happen overnight regardless, but if the Democratic Party had not been a right-wing or center right party since FDR and had been working toward true universal healthcare the past 70 years, any political work, say under Obama in his first term, would have been truly productive because it would not have been starting from scratch.
The biggest problem is that establishment Dems and their wannabes always put party and personality and personal privilege over any policy which might be rightly or wrongly associated with true liberalism or left(ish)-wing politics or...
That's your exceptional American Democratic Party at work.
No comments:
Post a Comment