You Can't be Anti-Progressive and Solve Health Care

Americans voted the Democrats in but thanks to Obama, Republicans are still making the laws. Now the Democrats will be blamed for bad Republican laws, laugh out loud.

The bottom line is that both of the parties are too far to the right to pass a reasonable health care law or even to fully understand the issues and requirements involved. You can get away with it on some things, but you can't be anti-progressive and solve health care. It appears to be that simple.

Obama, as Nader describes here, seems even more incapable to do anything that will work for more than a few short years than do the two parties as a whole. Moreover, Obama is so lame that he does not even seem qualified to be President. If Obama was a prime minister in a parliamentary democracy, there would already be some talk about a future vote of no confidence which could end his tenure and trigger a new election.

Although there are many other issues that both parties are too far to the right to successfully deal with, the health care issue is special. Most of the other issues requiring progressive input apparently don't have the kind of relatively near term "economy wrecking power" that the failed US health care system seems to pack.

"Long term" means about 50 years or many multiples of that whereas "near term" could be a few short decades. Even right wingers sit up and take notice when something threatens the economy in the near term, thus all the discussion about health care this year.

It appears that health care may be the thing which is first in line to bring down the hard right US system once and for all.

Consider this summary of the grim logic and plausible chain of events involved here. The political system can't fix the health care system. And the health care system is bringing down the economy as a whole. If the economy is destroyed, the political system would no doubt go with it.