"But we couldn't *possibly* have gotten single payer!"

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300. For anything to come about

People need to work for it, to make their demands heard. During the primaries, neither Obama nor Clinton proposed single payer. Democrats never put it on the table during the negotiations when Obama first took office. For it to have been a possibility, we would have had to work hard to demand it, just as we will have to do for it to be an option in the future. Sitting around and complaining that Obama didn't deliver something he never promised or proposed, something that people wanted but did little to nothing to bring about, is pointless. It only serves to depress activism and Democratic votes. If anyone wants to propose an idea of how we can actually take steps toward bringing about single payer, I'd love to hear it. I, however, am suspicious of efforts to spread disillusionment with the Democratic Party rather than proposing steps for actual change.