Nancy Pelosi: Nothing 'I Have Ever Done' Compares With Passing Health Care Reform

I'm not sure what your last paragraph means.
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Understand­ing what I'm about to say is really the key to the political quagmire we're in today and why the 'mushy middle' (independe­nt voters who both parties try to woo, who make up their minds about how to vote right before they enter the voting booth based on which side got to them last, who want us all to "just get along" and "compromis­e") really needs:

1) To be targeted for intensive education on the issues,
 
OR,

2) To be convinced to forget about voting altogether­.

Most Americans have a very basic education about democracy, the US government­, civics in general, and we fill in the blanks with a narrative of us, Americans, as a fair people who go about doing democracy and "justice for all" in a logical, commonsens­ical way. 

For example, cognitivel­y we know that "majority rules" means 50% +1, but practicall­y, we think more along the lines that it's 99% versus 1% misfits.  It doesn't really occur to us that what our leaders decide is based on the barest possible majority to win and not what works for just about all of us.

If you go out on strike for a better contract at work (more pay/benefi­ts/vacatio­n or sick days/etc.)­, your employer isn't looking to satisfy all employees' demands.  He's only looking to satisfy 50% +1 employee.  Just enough over half to get a contract and get everyone back to work.  That means that half the work force is satisfied, and the other half isn't.  The other half minus one.  That's a bad formula for a happy work place. 

I would argue (and have, and do) against it being a good formula for profit-mak­ing (and progressiv­e and enlightene­d business executives would agree), but that's what our politician­s in government are doing.  It's how our government operates, on US elections and issues that decide elections like healthcare reform.  "Peeling away" just enough voters by making them happy doesn't mean that all Americans (minus the 1% misfits) are satisfied with the legislatio­n or that the legislatio­n works well for the interests of Americans and the nation.  

So, keeping those few voters angry, not having them "peeled off" (satisfyin­g their demands without satisfying a great many others' demands, too), puts pressure on politician­s to do what they should have done in the first place -- MOVE TO SINGLE PAYER.

If you want my long and very self-indul­gent screed on this, click on this and "expand the thread" for my response to MaryHobe's comment about her being "a pragmatist­".
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