Insurance Care Wins, Health Care Loses

In spite of what the various groups which have been formed to coral and cow progressives into the Democratic Party may be saying today, the passage of Obama's "health care" program is nothing to celebrate. It isn't our health that's being cared for: it's the health of the insurance industry. The insurance companies are well taken care of now. We're forced to do business with them, whether we like it or not, no matter what shoddy products they have to sell. This is a wealth transfer and a bailout to what should be a dead industry. Obama's bait and switch has succeeded. He promised health care for all, and gave us corporate care for the insurance companies.

Once and for all: Obama is not a progressive. Neither are MoveOn.org, True Majority, or the rest progressive organizations. To add the final touch, Obama was able to gear up MoveOn.org, the Daily Kos, etc. came down hard on the last progressive left in Congress, Dennis Kucinich, forcing him to support this corporate giveaway with threats of running someone else, someone more corporation-friendly, no doubt, in the primaries against him. Supporting the Democratic Party is, just as supporting the Republican Party and their Tea-bagger flunkies is, supporting Wall Street, supporting the rule of money in Congress, and the perpetuation of failed social policies and endless wars.

Dennis Kucinich should join the Green Party as soon as tomorrow. The Democrats are not going to stop here. They'll want him out of Congress whether he folded to them now or not. As for the "progressive" organizations like MoveOn.org, they are nothing but fronts for corporate power, eternal war, and increasing disparity in wealth, and the rest of the Democratic Party's platform. The Republicans and the Democrats are nothing more than part of a show, a sham performance to make us think there are actually political differences of any note in our body politic. Obama is nothing more nor less than the latest war-mongering corporado to occupy the White House.