Common Dreams is the one Internet Place you Definitely need to be

I just want to say at the moment that Common Dreams, among the well known, older progressive sites that have comments, seems to be just about the only one that is overwhelmingly against this very bad law. Congrats to everyone who comes here and doesn't bother with the highest traffic progressive sites, such as Huffington Post and Daily Kos, etc. where (I would assume, because to be honest I seldom go to them, laugh out loud) there is a complete and confusing split of opinion, which is what you expect when the principles of non-right wing politics and economics are either not fully understood or not fully accepted.

Common Dreams has NOT been left confused and split, and this is outstanding and notable.

Go to one of those sites and you will end up very and needlessly confused as to whether the law is a good one or a bad one. Laws are either good or bad, based mostly on the total amount of good and bad they do. Yet Huff Post, Daily Kos, BuzzFlash, etc. are going to be hopelessly confused and split as to whether this proposed law is good or bad. They don't fully understand economics and politics, and they like to ignore what the other countries are doing, at least when it's "crunch time", what else can I say?

So in short, screw those other sites. I hate to be blunt, but it is a fact that you are not a true progressive if you support this legislation.

I for one will not only never vote either Republican nor Democrat, but I will never be participating in the other "progressive" sites, which when all was said and done, mostly sold out, to one extent or another, to the right wing Democrats and their need to pass something, anything, so as to (in their view) avoid losing election the next time they are up.

Common Dreamers know that no law is perfect, but we also damn well know a law that is worse than nothing when we see one. And we can detect a law that is a complete sell out when we see one. Moreover, we know that things would be better off, not worse off, if nothing at all were passed instead of the turkey.

Further, we know that you technically don't even need national laws for there to be beneficial actions, such as for example the free, temporary health care clinics that used to be only in 3rd world countries but have popped up in the US lately. Or how about progressive physicians who accept cash payments on a sliding scale? The point is, if the government is incompetent or too right wing, there are many, many other ways to get the jobs that need doing done.

The above was in response to this article at Common Dreams. More precisely, though, this particular Unity-Progress article was in response to a very impressive, overwhelming rejection of the proposed and likely to pass health care reform (deform, actually) a true legislative disaster in the making