re: #651 LudwigVanQuixote

Also: I’m a ‘liberal’, but I’m barely motivated to help the Democrats on most issues, since a lot of the time they’re doing it wrong. Since the GOP is going to scream their heads off about anything the Democrats do, I do not understand why the Democrats keep crippling their ideas with compromise.

I am not saying that the Democrat’s plans are great and flawless to start. They’re not. However, I do not think synthesis is usually possible between those ideas and their diametric opposites, and attempts at it just wind up with weak, less effectual ideas.

I think the US respects the idea of competition; I think if the Democrats made a strong case for public option and single-payer, they could have gotten it through, and people would actually evaluate how well it was working.

It is not very motivating for me to donate money to the Democrats or work to get Democrats in general elected, when they are so tepid. Massachusetts is a good example of that.