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



I should look up some clever quote about denial, but I'm too lazy.

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It's going to cost more to cover everyone, obviously.



We currently pay so much for health care, there are ways to bring the costs down enough so that even with the additional people being covered, the nation is actually spending less on health care.

Check out the Healthy Americans Act. Here's some easy reading on it: Click Click Click

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I'd be OK paying a small amount more to slow the skyrocketing costs of insurance.



That bill didn't slow the cost increases of health care. And, if it were slowed, you wouldn't have to pay more anyway. The cost may not come down, but at least it wouldn't keep going up as fast.

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But, the article addresses the larger issue of why people vote against their best interests.



That article is a liberal ranting and he's just calling Republicans assholes who manipulate people into voting for them. There's no higher level of understanding in it. It's just name calling. Like the section that starts off like this:

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In his book The Political Brain, psychologist Drew Westen, an exasperated Democrat, tried to show why th Right often wins the argument even when the Left is confident that it has the facts on its side.



It alleges Bush Jr distort an issue. Yeah? All politicians do that. Saying it's only Republicans do that is complete propaganda. Check out where Obama attended a Republican conference and both the Republicans and Obama are accusing each other of doing that. And, both make excellent points where the other side has done that. It's here: Click

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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.



Seriously, charin. You have no idea what the Republicans are really saying.

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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?



It works like this. Everyone who has put any real thought into politics doesn't blindly side with either party. But, one party will a lot of times have much more you like than the other party.

I don't even consider myself a Rebupblican. That's just usually how I vote in close elections or if there's no Libertarian candidate available.

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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?



Seriously charin, watch that Obama at the Republican conference video. They air a bunch of grievances about that dogma you've somehow let yourself believe. And note, that article accuses Republicans of boon-swaggling the public and how that's really their only secret to success. Meanwhile you're running around spewing the same kind of nonsense the Democrats have managed to brain-wash you with.

Plus that Obama at Republican conference video is a lot more honest than you'll see politicians usually. It makes it harder for them to distort facts when they're talking directly to the person they've been lying about.