Yes we can? Do they mean that as some kind of sick joke? Yes we COULD have gotten real reform. But tragically, for the Democrats and all their supporters, and especially their progressive supporters, NO WE DID NOT!!! If real change could ever happen under their "leadership" this was the moment and the opportunity to do it. If they ever had any intention of putting real reform in place, and not just a couple cosmetic talking points, this was when it would have happened.
And it will not stand. Despite all the paper thin "hooray for our team", rah-rah partisan talk of the moment, the individual mandate is going down. At least 38 states are going to fight this to the death. And if you consider yourself a Democrat this should be especially sad for you, because it's going to take down the entire Democratic party with it.
There is now NO safe Democratic seat in Congress in the coming general election. If the Kennedy Senate seat was not safe, having now gone even further to perversely defy the will of the American people, how is that not even more the case now with them all.
Forget the Republicans. The American people at large like them if anything even less than the Democrats. The 83% of us who disapprove of Congress must organize ourselves into an independent base. We must preemptively select and rally behind one and ONLY one independent challenger for each political office in the country. Because when the Democrats go down, there must be some other alternative meaningful choice for the American people. And the link above is the site which will make it all possible, if only you will join in the discussion there now.
So mark our words. And take careful note of any person who is telling you now that we needed to vote for this bill as it was. Any such person who has said such a thing is forever marked as someone whose judgment CANNOT trusted on an important policy matter in the future. Any person who tries to sell you that this was a good deal, or even an acceptable deal, is at the end of the day nothing more than a corporate collaborator, whether witting or unwitting. Without exception they are either a coward, corrupt, or a corrupt coward. And you tell them we said so.
How stupid do they think we really are?
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