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Mead posted...

This doesnt even come close to making any sense Muscles

why do you do this

Well as he said in the part you didn't quote, they mainly do stuff to secure themselves future elections rather than doing what's best. You basically said it yourself too, in that they did Obamacare because single payer was (debatably) unpopular. Now I imagine you're going to say that as elected representatives they should do what people want, but guess what: They (including republicans) fail to do that all the time anyway. And Obamacare was still going to be smeared as socialism regardless, and nobody ended up really excited about it anyway. Then Dems lost, a lot, and not that many years later single payer has a lot more public support. They totally fucking blew it.

Status quo in this country is unfortunately based largely in right wing propaganda and that probably won't change with these incremental steps, so I say to hell with "popularity", just execute the big ideas and let the results speak for themselves, especially when you're just going to lose being a centrist anyway