"But we couldn't *possibly* have gotten single payer!"

[JDPriestly]

355. Single payer advocates were plentiful. They asked to be seated at the table during the

negotiations, and Obama turned them down.

Single payer advocates were plentiful -- and silenced and excluded from the debate.

And that is what I despise about third way, DLC politics. They know the can't win in a fair debate so they exclude and ostracize proponents of better solutions. They do it over and over. The Hillary got the election already, no need for anyone else to try because it is mine. It's my turn after all crowd don't just want to win. They want to silence those who disagree with them.

Had single payer advocates been given their turn to speak in favor of their ideas, we would at least have a public option. I remember that Obama claimed until just weeks before the bill was decided on that he favored a public option. He knew how popular the idea was. He just didn't have what it takes to really sell that idea and insist on it.

So much for DLC, third-way politics. Should be called "sold-out to big corporations politics" because that is what it is.