That’s not my job as a voter and a member of the great unwashed electorate.
It is President Obama’s job to protect and preserve his legacy by doing everything within his power to advance my interests as one of the unpowerful and disconnected. Either he did or didn’t do this and history can be the judge.
However, I cannot accept that I can never aspire or support larger and more sweeping goals such as a single payer system because President Obama didn’t share my dream and supported a “uniquely American” system that kept for-profit middlemen at the center. His compromises do not limit my dreams and aspirations for the future.
I don’t exist to serve the Party and it’s leaders, they exist to serve my interests, or so it is supposed to be in a democracy. How did it come that the vested interests and “stakeholders” held sway and I don’t? How did the roles become reversed? Why do we have a system that costs more with worse outcomes and we are told it’s the best we can do?