Let the collective progressive screech begin…
Health Care Reform (HCR) died Jan. 19 in Massachusetts, shortly before his 19th birthday. He was a victim of a mass suicide pact by economic left-liberals swilling Kool-Aid they’ve been drinking for years to satisfy a thirsty obsession for replacing marketplace accountability with government mandates.
Funeral services will be private, as the family now wishes to keep Reform to itself. In lieu of flowers, they request donations be made to the Democratic House and Senatorial campaign committees.
It would appear the Obama-Pelosi-Reid cabal wasn’t listening to the liberals either.
In the end, they abandoned their “principles” in lieu of self-preservation. They figured if they let Obamacare wither on the vine, constituents would embrace them with amnesiac open arms come November 2010. But Republicans and independents won’t forget, and it looks like progressives will now have a grudge to hold as well.
An Elephant never forgets
progressives will now have a grudge to hold
So what’s new. The progressives should have followed Daley’s lead, and planned a strategic retreat. They have yet to defeat individual dignity through their programs of indoctrination. The people will not submit and they do resist. The majority of Americans know why they oppose progressivism in principle, and the details are mostly irrelevant.
We either empower the individual and deal with inevitable compromises required to accommodate each person’s will, or we submit to the control of “elitist” (in their own minds) bureaucrats, and follow their every whim. This was the character of the old systems. The systems which cost the lives of hundreds of millions to depose.
There is a need for health care reform, which does not start with further consolidation of power by a governing entity, but does start with empowering individuals to take responsibility for their own lives.