Special Attention: Democratic Congressional delegation:
Despite being stricken with polio and confined to a wheelchair, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a bare-knuckle democrat. He never backed down to the opposition who fought to create an autocratic economy. He did not compromise in addressing the necessities that defined his times. And his unselfish accomplishments resulted in a stronger constitutional republic, in a stronger democracy. It was not easy, but with the majority of US citizens behind him, we overcame powerful economic forces aligned to inject the population with fear, to incite the violence of division, and to deepen the Great Depression; to bury citizenship and basic human dignity in the pits of poverty and despair.
FDR was a bare-knuckle democrat because he was fearless.
Fear has never been the motivating ally of a free people. Fear has long been, and shall continue to be, the essential element in the disintegration of nations. Yet today, as members of the democratic coalition in the US House of Representatives and the Senate, your likely capitulation on the health insurance bill reeks of fear. Once the battle lines were drawn on reforming our currently monopolized health insurance market and after riding the coat-tails of a popular presidential candidate for your seat in Congress, you cut and ran the moment the heat was on.
Your anticipated desertion now, as corporate monopoly democrats on the most vital domestic issue of our time, flies in the face of the mandate for change resulting from the national election. It reveals a timid and calculating, handwringing nature unfit to govern or represent a free people. And it tells the voting public where you will be on the next controversial issue--voting "no" along with your republican colleagues who were soundly defeated in the last two election cycles.
Perhaps you have not noticed, but we are in crisis. We must act.
Recently the Inspector General of the United States declared the health insurance industry a monopoly—corporate entities with exclusive control over price and supply, shirking competition and denying consumer choice—clearly unsustainable. A public option in health insurance is our mechanism for monopoly busting as it alone inflicts the monopolized market with competition. The government is the only entity powerful enough to overcome the high barriers to entry common in the industry.
But when our corporate monopoly democrats vote “no” on the public option—arm in arm with the republicans who do not represent the public on a single domestic economic issue--it will bring about the unwarranted consequences of perpetuating a no-competition economic environment in which rapacious monopolistic practices can grow unrestrained. Your negative vote on a public option in Congress, your vacating comprehensive health care reform, and your willful negligence in maintaining competitive markets and proper regulation of commerce, will punctuate a future stress-filled era of legally clever shell-games by the health insurance industry to dissolve rightful options in personal medical choice along with hidden fees, double-digit premium increases, poorer service, higher co-pays, rescission policies. You know the drill.
As corporate monopoly democrats, your indenture to demanding autocratic masters in the corporate world raises implicitly, the question whether your personal servitude to big money renders you free enough to make decisions about the public well being. In contrast to the late Senator Edward Kennedy, you seem disempowered in your most fundamental obligation to the citizens of the United States.
Your acceptance and dependence upon legalized bribery, however, has empowered you, through the health insurance industry, to create a masterpiece of autocratic non-accountability in the marketplace and within it, the deadly ruthless exploitation of health insurance customers. The pouring forth of this alienating corporate power on the citizens of the United States is a demonstration of congressional contempt for the plain ordinary hard work done by millions of citizens--the hard work that built the world's greatest economy. The thought that a democratic majority would allow the incomes of American citizens to be plundered by organized raiders in the corporate world is intolerable. Thus an enduring public need exists for you to demonstrate that you are not the legislative chattel of large corporations; that you are independent enough to write legislation for a free and independent people.
In the meantime, your likely “no” vote on an effective public option will default to the health insurance monopoly several additional unneeded favors:
It will give the health insurance cartel a captive customer base to free it from competition--competition being the essence of good business and the most benevolent economic cure to a monopolized market. Competition …”off the table?” By your sustained opposition to reform and as a true servant of corporate monopolization of markets, you will also award the health insurance cartel predetermined financial gains—gains gotten without competition, without being earned. As a statistical unit of profit, citizens will be funneled into the purchase of health insurance from a disabled market--an ill effect of anticompetitive practices, which you, in the US Congress knowingly yet unaccountably, allow to proliferate.
Folks, power divided is our friend. The negative votes of corporate monopoly democrats on health insurance reform will consolidate more corporate power. It will encourage the growth of monopolized markets in related medical fields. That means more monopoly control over government--autocratic, authoritarian and undemocratic. It means practicable economic policies framed just for a theoretical monetary world where only monopolies can thrive; the fabrication of economic nonesense to serve the monolithic interests of this kind of power will render the Constitution of the United States completely inert. And it follows inexorably that we will experience tremendous official contempt for we the people, for the rights-possessing citizen—the true unit and essence of constitutional democracy.
Despite the delusional madness of the carpet-biting right in the media and at recent town hall meetings, republican representatives might want to draw their line of monopolistic support somewhere short of infinity. Like conservative democrats, the Republican Party has no particular business supporting monopolistic movements either while boasting, falsely, as champion advocate for small businesses--whom they persistently threw under the bus when they had a strong congressional majority under Bush.
It is also wrong, if not politically tragic, for well-financed republican factions to act out the illusion that fundamental change has not taken place in the American temper about our monopolized health insurance market. It is impossible for any party or faction to ramrod status quo rigor mortis down the public’s throat without serious damage in 2010. In the larger narrative, and as a radicalized and intemperate faction of a once respectable Republican Party, you’ve lost heavily in the last two election cycles. A third loss would be unprecedented. Do something new. Rediscover your role within a constitutional republic with democratic institutions. Your attempts to move beyond these time-tested civilized parameters put you, historically, in bad company.
The United States of America is no Wiemar Republic. Do not tread on us.
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