USA Today's in-your-face editorial headline,
"ObamaCare resisters, get with the program" and demeaning assaults on
opponents of government-run health care reveals the same partisan belligerence
and arrogance that shoved ObamaCare through Congress and down the throats of
half of the country's citizens who opposed it.
The snarky editorial compares ObamaCare opponents to Japanese
soldiers hiding after the war's end, labels them "dead-enders" and
"refuseniks" intent on "pointless" and "quixotic"
opposition simply because they have been mindlessly "egged on by the
conservative group FreedomWorks."
Like this USA Today editorial, ObamaCare autocrats managed to alienate and exclude the very people who could have moderated an
extremely partisan, ideological bill into a pragmatic compromise that more
Americans could support. Now the administration is wielding the unchecked
federal power of ObamaCare to bludgeon into submission states that resist
federal intrusion and against religious organizations and individual citizens
who conscientiously object to abortion.
This is not how republican democracy is supposed to work, and this
is not how American civil dialogue is supposed to resolve our differences.
It's challenging to all of us who hold strong views on health
care, but we've got to learn to dialogue respectfully with our fellow citizens
who are political opponents and to focus on pragmatic yet principled ways to
attain our shared goals of compassion, quality, affordability and financial
sustainability.
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