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The supporters of the Democratic Party and the Obama Administration are championing the passage of the health insurance reform bill in the House of Representatives.\u00a0 We would expect them to do so.\u00a0 Besides trying to fashion policies that benefit the nation they are message machines that, like everything public or private that is seeking public approval, embellishes its accomplishments and minimizes its failures.<\/p>\n

As Robert Reich reported on his blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The significance of Obama’s health legislation is more political than substantive. For the first time since Ronald Reagan told America that government is the problem, Obama’s health bill reasserts that government can provide a major solution. In political terms, that’s a very big deal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is important; it represents a hiccup in the conservative Republican Party\u2019s plan to capitalize\u00a0on an inherent distrust of government that so many Americans have.\u00a0 For the moment, President Obama and progressive-to-moderate Democrats stopped the hemorrhaging of power from the public sector to the private sector.\u00a0 However this bill should not be mistaken as a regeneration of the New Deal and the Great Society.\u00a0 As Reich said<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Most Americans continue to be suspicious of government. That distrust is deeply etched in our culture and traditions. Our system of government was devised by people who distrusted government and intentionally created checks and balances, three separate branches, and almost insuperable odds against getting big things done. The period extending from 1933 to 1965 – the New Deal and the Great Society – was an historical aberration from that long tradition, animated by the unique crises of the Great Depression and World War II, and the social cohesion that flowed from them for another generation. Ronald Reagan merely picked up where Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover left off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Passage of this bill \u201callows us to live another day.\u201d\u00a0 What do we do with that time?\u00a0 The general strategy has to be bring the independent or moderate voters who supported Barack Obama in 2008 to join him in Hope 2.0; not being afraid to rely on the federal government to address problems where the private sector has failed.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are two specific suggestions:<\/p>\n

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  1. You can keep tabs of all the things that government does well.\u00a0 Remind yourself that the conservative Republican demonization of everything government (except what directly benefits them) is poor public policy and not reflective of reality.\u00a0 If you want a good source for government accomplishments, look at the \u201cGovernment Is Good<\/a>\u201d section of the Occasional Planet<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. You can try to avoid engaging in the belligerence of so many conservative Republicans who constantly attack government and the people who need it most.\u00a0 There are some Republicans (not necessarily conservative) who are thoughtful and compassionate.\u00a0 They have their own web site at http:\/\/progressiverepublican.ning.com\/<\/a>. \u00a0 And reach out to Republicans as film-maker Michael Moore has done as he tries to be gracious about \u201cthis victory.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0In an open letter to Republicans<\/a>, he provides a list of benefits from the bill such as:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Thanks to last night’s vote, that 23-year-old of yours who will be hit one day by a drunk driver and spend six months recovering in the hospital will now not go bankrupt because you will be able to keep him on your insurance policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Many individuals in our society are better off because of passage of the bill.\u00a0 Regrettably, that\u2019s a threat to many conservative Republicans.\u00a0 They want to think that passage of the bill was just a hiccup in their efforts to dismantle government.\u00a0 We need to stay vigilant to take this small victory and use it as a first step toward regenerating the New Deal and Great Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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