Paul Krugman: Obama Has 'Largely Accepted Conservative View Of The World'

"But clearly, you are not a fan of compromise, which - unfortunately for you - is what politics is all about in this country, and has been for some time now."

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Your belief that compromise is "what politics is all about in this country, and has been for some time now" is wrong, just as your presumption that I'm "not a fan of compromise" is wrong.  It's an arrogant and insulting presumption at that; you don't even understand when you've cross the line into abusive commenting.  Try doing that sometime in politics, when trying to negotiate a 'compromise', and see how far it's going to get you.
 
But I digress.

Politics isn't about compromise.  Politics is a process and a method that human beings have for making decisions.  Compromising can take place, but not necessarily.  And it's never your starting position.  What you're calling 'compromise' (and what Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats are doing) is not compromise, but linguistic distortion and spin.  

For compromise to take place, for a compromise to work, for a compromise agreement to be legitimate, to stick, to last, to stand the test of time, for us to get past our differences with each other, live together in peace (that is the point of politics, after all; to share the resources of the country and planet so I don't have to k!II you, or vice versa, so that we are each free to pursue our versions of the American dream), all parties have to be at the table.  

And that's the inherent problem with Obama's healthcare legislation.  He shut out the People (the customers and consumers of medical care) from the negotiations about what we want to do with OUR money.  We The People were denied a seat at the table.  Obama and the insurance and pharmaceutical industries  'compromised' away the People's interests.   

When he did that, Obama gamed an already-st­acked-agai­nst-the-Pe­ople system, and exposed exactly on whose behalf he's working: The corporations and the rich.
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