This is such a depressing day, politically. On days like this, I wonder: is it better to stay and fight in such a socially backward place? Or move to a civilized country like Canada or the UK? We've made a life here, and we personally are only financially affected by the healthcare mess here: premiums jumping every year meaning that raises are smaller, and such raises as there are are cut into by increases in my share of the premium.
But this is small potatoes compared to the tens of millions who have no insurance, or whose employers don't provide insurance. For them, today, my heart bleeds. We have a solid majority in the house and senate, and we hold the presidency, and we can't pass an incredibly weak health care bill to ensure that everyone is insured? This country, if you'll pardon the language, sucks. Big time.
What this fight has done is to break my hope in the democratic party. I have no faith in the opposition: they are awful. But the left is now worthless too.
Yours, disgusted enough to move to Tunbridge Wells,
N.
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