Healthcare is to Dems as Abortion is to Repubs

[valerief]

I'm convinced the Dems' Healthcare is comparable to the Repubs' Abortion. Sure, Congress will give bucketloads of money to for-profit insurance companies with some legislation or another, but they'll continue to dangle that affordable healthcare carrot to us yet never deliver. And they'll blame the Repubs for not delivering the way the Repubs blame the Dems for not outlawing abortion.

I want to hope. I like to be silly and happy. My favorite word is delight. However, when it comes to government, I have a hard time lying to myself. The glass isn't half full. It's more than half empty. Government has got men with guns and pro-liberal media blackouts and endless propaganda and lies--and always a fresh new generation of Americans to brainwash and recruit. And so I get snarky and cynical.

We don't matter. Why does the Senate hate America?

I can't get those statements out of my head.

They promise hope, we get hopiness. They promise change, we get changiness. They promise peace, we get war. They promise healthcare, they snatch that carrot away.

I'm so tired of the spin for the Senate's actions--the personality politics, ideology blather, the "doesn't get it," the "no political will," and all the other diversion-speak and euphemisms. I want to enjoy my time left on this planet before my job is offshored and I have no money, before I get too sick to recover without medical help, before my anger turns to utter despair.

Maybe I'll become a Cheney Republican and shoot a friend in the face. Those folks are never disappointed.

:hurts:

[liberal N proud]

1. Like maybe they are afraid to actually pass it for fear of losing the carrot

I contend that the GOP would never ban abortion because it would loosen the grip they have on a block of voter. They just keep feeding them a line of shit to get their votes.

Maybe the Democrats are the same with Health Care and other Social program. I would like to think not but I guess it is a possibility.

[valerief]

2. Yep, that's what I've been thinking. nt

[burning rain]

6. I suspect it's more that they want to square the circle....

of corralling liberals and working folks with campaign promises and happytalk about mediocre legislation while at the same time catering to corporate interests.

[treestar]

3. That's the way politics is

That's the way the Senate is. It is like sausage being made or all that. We have to be part of it, not just watch and criticize and expect to be taken care of.

Our system may be crappy, but it's got its good points.

[valerief]

4. Sorry, but I'm tired of sausage-speak, too. nt

[juno jones]

5. I hate to say it, but you have a point there.

I'd just expand it to 'social programs' period. They have a peculiar knack for selling us downriver every time they' reform' something for us.

[Jamastiene]

7. I have come to that conclusion too.

For a while, I was depressed about it. Now, I just figure our only chance to make any kind of difference, for real, is to donate our time, effort, money(those who can), and energy to the issues we care most about. If we know others who care about the same issues, work with them the best we can to get the message out there and try to make a difference that way.

Part of me still feels like the poster on Fox Mulder's wall: "I Want To Believe"

Part of me knows we are screwed.