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Thanks for the nothingburger, Digby

Submitted by lambert on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 2:02pm

Dear Lord:

I wish I had more confidence that liberals would rise up en masse and demand single payer if Obamacare is struck down, but I just can't imagine [no, indeed] it happening. It would take a whole bunch of people who have health care* (most of the country) taking to the streets and demanding it for others. At this point I think the middle class is battered and tired. The best case is that some states** would manage to pass Romneycare [which is ObamaCare] in fits and start.

Well, Digby, maybe if you had started pushing single payer in 2009 like some other blogs you wouldn't feel so dispirited today, because a proven policy would be part of the discourse. And say, here's a thought:

The Supreme Court case is a teachable moment. Maybe you could be using your big megaphone now to educate people on policy. Maybe if they knew they had real workable options they wouldn't feel so "tired."

Is it too much to ask that Democrats would once, just once, try to do the right thing?

NOTE Yeah, yeah, I know. Single payer would have passed if lambert wasn't an asshole.

NOTE * No. They have health insurance, not health care. Digby perpetuates and reinforces the role of the health insurance companies who profit, after all, by denying people health care.

UPDATE ** Like Vermont, for example, which is working on a single payer-like system. Digby's suppression of single payer continues. Shocking, I know.

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Submitted by a little night ... on

is the ONLY intelligent response to the "leftist" "analysis" of the Supreme Court Challenge.

"Obamacare" = Republican plan opposing Clinton plan

The whole thing = stupidity in opposition to single-payer

single-payer= not enough, we should want socialization

Submitted by Hugh on

Digby is a Democratic tribalist. I tuned her out a long, long time ago. We used to make fun of wingers and how they would engage in revisionist history. Glenn Greenwald sort of cut his teeth on stories of what they said then vs. what they were saying now. But Democratic tribalists are really no different. I remember a couple of months ago seeing a post by I think Peterr at fdl lauding the site for being so right in the healthcare debate. It was painful. The problem is, of course, that site embraced the veal pen consensus on healthcare early on, conducted witch hunts against single payer advocates which extended even after the debate was over, and only came out against Obamacare late in the game and long after their beloved public option had been completely eviscerated.

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Submitted by lizpolaris on

as she claimed all the while to be for it:

When it comes to legislative sausage making, there's little we as grassroots activists can do about the actual ingredients. We can call out congresspeople and we can sign petitions and we can run some ads and write letters to the editor. All of that is useful. But when it comes to the minutia of the bill, it's highly unlikely that we can have a direct effect.

What we can do is rally around a specific concept like the public plan (or in a political world with better organization and foresight, single payer) and push with all of our might to get that one thing done. The beauty of doing that around the public plan is the rhetorical simplicity of it. And it actually uses the word public as if that's something good.

Gosh, the phrase 'public option' sounds so good let's all get behind it no matter what it means!! And stop advocating for the idea which might actually solve our health CARE problems! Woohoo! But don't get too excited because we little people can't have any effect on legislation anyway! Wow, I'm really fired up with encouragement!

There may also have been other similar bail-out posts from her besides this - I only checked out a little bit of the way-back machine.