Why Common Dreams is the Best Progressive Internet Site

With respect to anyone who is not a “regular” at Common Dreams who has or who will be making one or more one hit wonder type “guest comment(s)” about how we regulars are wrong about opposing the 2,700 pages and about how all the establishment progressives (who aren’t really progressives at all by World standards) are right about supporting the 2,700 pages, please understand that no Common Dreams regular will be swayed one inch by your shallow, childish, and baseless accusations about how we are supposedly too theoretical or perfectionist or whatever for not supporting the 2,700 pages.

True, we have won the theoretical debate hands down as you would expect. In theory, single payer (in all its real world varied manifestations) is very clearly much superior in virtually all respects to both the current system and the system envisioned in the 2,700 pages. Unfortunately, on this issue, the US is very wrong while the rest of the civilized, reputable world is very right.

But also, I and other regulars here at Common Dreams have during the last year been explaining countless hard factual, no pretending, no kidding, and very real world reasons why the 2,700 pages are going to do much more harm than good to the population as a whole.

Indeed, this health insurance issue has once and for all proved that Common Dreams is about the only place, and is apparently the best place, where (a) there are a lot of comments and (b) where most of the comments and the folks making them are truly progressive. Whereas at the other sites that are supposedly comparable, mixed in with some true progressives are a whole lot of confused people who don't really know what a progressive is and, worse, are unable to identify a right wing approach to solving problems when they see it.

True, some of those gushing in favor of the 2,700 pages at those other sites (like Daily Kos and Huffington Post and so on) are right wing plants, some are stakeholders (such as insurance company and hospital employees) and some are both. But there are also at those sites a good number of plain old confused folks as well who think they are progressive but are really not.

Regulars: I’ll have much, much more later (you know I will, laugh out loud).

The above was in response to this article at Common Dreams.

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