Thanks to the GOP there will be no more death panels, now grandma can die like an American- bankrupt, homeless, and denied medical treatment because she cant afford an insurance that actually covers anything!

These bastards are off in their own twisted little fantasy land…

Their paint was a tsunami of falsehoods about Obamacare, and after eight years of immersion in it, to put it simply, their brains were scrambled. How could they compose a workable plan to dismantle a fiction? How could the improve a delusion?

I agree with you that, however it turns out, their attack on Obamacare will have results they never intended, and will hate. Say it loud, say it proud: Single Payer! Medicare For All! I have seen the promised land!

But here’s perhaps a hopeful thought: You know why history can never (exactly) repeat itself? Because we do remember history, some of us, imperfectly, and that knowledge creates quantum interference, a sort of observer effect, on the present.

Less airily, I’m observing that public discussion in recent months now routinely includes reflection upon the similarities between today and other historical periods.

You can be sure that nobody in Weimar Germany ever thought, “oh shit, not again!”.

It’s a thin reed, but maybe we can learn from history.