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Since the day of the election, many have been so busy fighting to keep this President's feet to the fire, they forgot to show up to fight the true opponents of health care; those who don't want us to get nothing.
What I see is that when it comes to taking action, we can point to the faults of this President, his administration or/and our elected Congressional Democrats. But inasmuch as that would be true, we ought to look at ourselves as well. Democrats were split from the get go. Some wanted single payer and nothing else, and were willing to fight the President for it; not fight his opponents so much. Others were willing to accept the PO, but it had to be a certain type of PO, and they rebelled against the President, because they felt he wasn't doing enough to support it. Other did not much more than offer weak support (not much marching, calling congress, or hitting back at the media via phone calls, letters and such), all along always finding criticism, not so much toward the true opponents of health Care reform, but against our own.
This summer, the Town Hall maniacs started showing up on all of our televisions. They were everywhere for weeks! They were fighting and taking action. They were loud, angry and rebellious. And so....where were we at that time? Maybe we should have made sure that our voices were louder than theirs, instead of sitting on the sideline watching, waiting for someone else to do something.
They had their televised rallies that were attended by thousands, while we laughted at them. Meanwhile, we mainly sat on the Internet and discussed what it was that we were insisting on, and debating on whether the administration was doing right or doing wrong. You see, we have been doing this since the election, and we did it throughout the summer, and we never bothered to even consider to act on the premise that we were the one that we were supposed to be waiting for. Because believe you me, most of us didn't even bother to ever show up.
But yes, the administration has not acted as strongly as I would have anticipated.....which is why I keep on calling, and writing, and whatever else I need to do....cause nothing is over, and nothing is set into any stone. But yet so many are expressing defeat before the bill is done.
So how weak can we be, because again, we are claiming to have lost without ever having fought, because we are still waiting for others to fight for us, and we continue to debate on the Internet and discuss whether the administration has done it right or wrong. Same as right after the election. We haven't changed, and yet we expect radical change like single payer, total withdrawal from Afghanistan, etc. Change that is radical cannot happen unless we are willing to stand up and fight. But most of us never fight the real opposition; we fight amongs ourselves, and then we fight against a Democratic administration constantly (and I mean constantly).
Perhaps at the end of the day, we are getting exactly what we deserve; something weak, watered down, and tepid; because that is exactly the type of support the majority of us offered.
All I look forward to now is Obama and Congress getting the rest of what this bill will need to be truly affective using the budget reconcilation method using 51 votes after this bill is passed. That is when an existing bill can be made better without having to deal with conservadems. That's what I'll be fighting for, instead of tearing down this President just because I can. That's how progress can be achieved....and is much more constructive than most of what I have read here since January.
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