The Abominable Showmen
The House recently passed a new health care bill that was intended to not only repeal the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, but also replace it with an abomination that rips out everything good that the ACA provided, while lining the pockets of the wealthy and Big Business. The House accomplished this sad specimen of legislation --- after much arm-twisting and prodding --- by four votes, and for the sole purpose of being able to claim a "win." That's what it's all about nowadays. It's about winning and losing. It isn't about serving the people, writing legislation, or doing the job we elected them to do. Spurred on by the computer age and by video games, the mentality of much of the public is now binary; like computers, they only understand black and white, off and on, yes and no, 1 and 0. There is precious little middle ground anymore. Everybody is categorized as being on "our side" or "their side." Either embrace every sing