Making that my standard answer.

We really don't have time for 'future change'. On the economic front, we are reaching a point of deflation (I believe is likely) or hyper inflation (not likely). Then, governments WILL NOT be able to react fast enough and throwing money at the problem will not work this time.

And of course we have a real existential crises on hands with global warming. All the world powers signed an agreement in Paris and then popped open a bunch of bottles of Krystal and slapped themselves on the back for 'doing something'. What is needed is real WWII type effort to change our energy policy.

We don't have time. If we did, I could see a path of voting for Hilary and hoping to kick the can down the road a bit. The can is worn out and smashed to pieces. Nothing left to kick.

But they are different on issues like guns, and they're finally showing some spine about that with their sit in ...

Why now? Why not after the Newtown slaughter? Or any of several other slaughters? Why only when the party is *this* close to getting utterly ripped for throwing their base to the oligarch wolves?

Ok, *maybe* they're being sincere. But the timing has an odor to it.

http://kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/analysis-of-2017-premium-change...

Some people are going to see premium increases of over 20%. The average will be 10%. The increases had averaged 5% in past years. Take the report "with a grain of salt" because it is only preliminary. Who knows what the actual % increases will be later.

"Marketplace premiums under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), already a subject of perennial interest, have gained even more attention amid unfavorable financial results from some insurers, as well as initial reports of steep premium increases requested for 2017. Several factors will influence how premiums will change in 2017, and there is reason to believe that increases will be higher than in recent years."

a new website and layer of bureaucracy as well. Total bullshit, the system was already in place. When this had to be "new", that's when I saw a trainwreck coming.

since Medicaid wasn't expanded there.

this was the Obama administration's intent from the beginning. The ACA was always meant to be an healthcare/insurance industry subsidy with a guaranteed monopoly and a mandate to get all people signed up for their extortion racket. Education, social security Cat Food Commission), prisons, corporate regulations or any public institutions is not what Obama's administration wanted or worked for. The WH cut the ACA deal's way before the RW town hall loonies hit the floor.

From August 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/health/policy/13health.html?_r=1

Lobbyists for both the drug and hospital industries say that, as early as June, White House officials directed them to work out cost-saving deals with Mr. Baucus’s committee.

Drug industry lobbyists said they negotiated a deal to contribute $80 billion over 10 years toward the cost of an overhaul with Mr. Baucus, under White House supervision, before taking it to the president for final approval. House lawmakers have said they were caught by surprise when it was announced.

Hospital industry lobbyists, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of alienating the White House, say they negotiated their $155 billion in concessions with Mr. Baucus and the administration in tandem. House staff members were present, including for at least one White House meeting, but their role was peripheral, the lobbyists said.

Several hospital lobbyists involved in the White House deals said it was understood as a condition of their support that the final legislation would not include a government-run health plan paying Medicare rates — generally 80 percent of private sector rates — or controlled by the secretary of health and human services.

“We have an agreement with the White House that I’m very confident will be seen all the way through conference,” one of the industry lobbyists, Chip Kahn, director of the Federation of American Hospitals, told a Capitol Hill newsletter.

It was a by-partisan kabuki show rigged from the start with their bogus 60= a majority and their 'victories for compromise. Who compromises with RW the lunatics that the majority of people voted them in to stop? The Dems. sucked as the loyal opposition to the Bushies and they sucked as the majority they blew it off the minute they had it. Obama was the talented PR salesman who sold us an empty pocket full of hope.

Obama at the Hamilton Project, 2006: “This is not a bloodless process.”
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/04/obama-at-the-hamilton-project-200...

As Gaius Publius remarks (about this speech): It’s not long, it touches most of the bases, and tells you all you need to know about how Barack Obama would govern.

Too bad I did not get to see this before the 2008 bait and switch bottom up change you can believe in campaign. A neoliberal/neocon smoking gun if I ever did see one.

both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have showered Zombie Reagan with praise. Can you even imagine FDR and Harry Truman fawning over Herbert Hoover? What the f&ck has happened to the Democratic Party? To America?

-- to mention what needs to be done.

the anti-Trump arguments by saying that anyone who would pull the lever for him is just enabling Repugnants, or are delusional or somehow just confused. Sure, there is that risk, and maybe that is true, but hopefully, you do understand why many have even considered doing that - because if Trump gets everything "done" that they want done, then maybe, just MAYBE, enough people see the damage the Repukes and Tea Bags have wrought and do something about it.

You do, however, make an excellent point about the worst case and "no big deal" camps though. But I have always thought since the advent of that stupid Tea Party that the only way these people are going to give up the racism and blaming the poor is when they themselves are staring down the barrel of living in a cardboard box. I realize, that is probably a terribly idealistic idea, but what else do we have at this point? We can either vote status quo and watch while the whole country/globe goes to hell in nice little incremental pieces, or we can take a chance and vote to blow the whole thing up. I am getting to the point that I want to blow the whole thing up, but I'm angry today too. And, I guess, in reality that is exactly how these people want us all to be - angry and full of impotent rage, and they want us to KNOW we can do nothing about it but watch. But even I won't pull the lever for Trump. He still represents the worst of the Repugnants and I can't vote for even the best of Repugnants anymore.

level (clever, those States Rights things) and now that we know how easily any effort to actually count votes is forgotten, I don't think that write-ins will be effective. Just my beaten-down view. I wrote in Teachout for NY Gov, I never saw a vote total for her.