Nothing has been defeated, except a poor candidate for the Senate seat in Mass.

It's going to cost more to cover everyone, obviously. Early versions of the current health care reform effort would have greatly benefited the majority of Americans. I'd be OK paying a small amount more to slow the skyrocketing costs of insurance. To have a system where I would know I'd be covered, job or no job, and not dropped because I was too sick.

But, the article addresses the larger issue of why people vote against their best interests. I remember reading about how, in Mississippi a few years ago, there was a bill that would change the regressive state tax system. Some corporations who were large land owners opposed it, and blitzed the state with advertising. Rank and file voters decided to keep paying a higher percentage of their incomes as taxes than the rich do.

How people still cling to the idea that keeping the corporations super rich and above the law, will somehow magically benefit the middle class, is mystifying. Why people refuse to demand better, I don't know. Does everyone have the delusion they will become super rich, and benefit from these policies?

I'll never understand how someone can come on a porn board and defend Republicans. You helped put Max in prison. Why do you defend the conservatives who did this? Why do you defend a party that doesn't want to do anything to work towards solutions to the problems the Republicans created in the last decade? Why do you want to make this like some third world shit hole, where a few are rich, and many die from lack of proper food and medical care? A basically poor country where the rich rip off what little most people have with unregulated banking and commerce systems, why do you want that?

Why do you hate freedom, and hate America?

There are lots of countries with governments that don't do shit for their people, where the economy is wide open. Take you ass to one of them, and quit fucking up my country.