What's that bumper sticker I saw the other day? "I neutered my cat. Now he's a Democrat." So sad, yet so true...
I hear you. I don't even follow politics directly, and just what trickles through Slate and the other places I read is enough to make me want to rage out at someone. I applaud Obama's idealism, I really do, but the fact is that when someone digs in their heels and absolutely refuses to discuss things rationally, the only way to overcome that is basically to steamroller them - otherwise you're left with the mess that we're in now. The plain and simple fact of the matter is that health care in our country is obscenely bad, and in dire need of change. It'd be nice to get everyone on board (you'd think that "health care is a basic human right" would be something everyone could agree on), but if the minority isn't going to play, nothing's going to happen unless you override them. I know the Obama administration's probably worried that something similar to Clintoncare will happen (in that it'll be an unpopular enough measure that they'll lose the House and Senate in the next election), but if he, and the Dems, really care about the ill, uninsured and bankrupt folks out there as much as they say they do, they'll cram it down the protesters' throats if they have to, next election be damned.
What I think would be hilarious? Say the Democrats look into their drawers and find something wondrous - their testicles - and pass a public option or some other reasonably useful health care reform. Then, four or eight years from now when the other side invariably gets their turn, they start talking about undoing the changes and reverting back to the old system. How many of the people protesting now will be absolutely 100% behind them then, do you think?
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Date: 2009-08-19 10:36 pm (UTC)I hear you. I don't even follow politics directly, and just what trickles through Slate and the other places I read is enough to make me want to rage out at someone. I applaud Obama's idealism, I really do, but the fact is that when someone digs in their heels and absolutely refuses to discuss things rationally, the only way to overcome that is basically to steamroller them - otherwise you're left with the mess that we're in now. The plain and simple fact of the matter is that health care in our country is obscenely bad, and in dire need of change. It'd be nice to get everyone on board (you'd think that "health care is a basic human right" would be something everyone could agree on), but if the minority isn't going to play, nothing's going to happen unless you override them. I know the Obama administration's probably worried that something similar to Clintoncare will happen (in that it'll be an unpopular enough measure that they'll lose the House and Senate in the next election), but if he, and the Dems, really care about the ill, uninsured and bankrupt folks out there as much as they say they do, they'll cram it down the protesters' throats if they have to, next election be damned.
What I think would be hilarious? Say the Democrats look into their drawers and find something wondrous - their testicles - and pass a public option or some other reasonably useful health care reform. Then, four or eight years from now when the other side invariably gets their turn, they start talking about undoing the changes and reverting back to the old system. How many of the people protesting now will be absolutely 100% behind them then, do you think?