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In reply to the discussion: "But we couldn't *possibly* have gotten single payer!" [View all]BainsBane
(53,031 posts)We don't need to be reminded. We weren't in a coma. We remember the election, the primaries, and how single payer was never on the table. By not answering it demonstrates you did exactly nothing to promote single payer at the time, yet now you raise the issue. Is there some reason you consistently refuse to focus on any current legislation we can actually affect and instead work to further disillusion with the Democratic Party?
I again feel the need to point out that this view of social change you advance where it is bestowed from above by a benevolent leader is completely counter-factual. If people want something done, they can't sit around complaining and expect anything to happen. Government has to be forced to act in the interests of the people. That is the ONLY way anything has ever changed. Complaining years after the fact only serves to depress social activism, not promote it.