It's been awhile since I said goodbye and wrote my GBCW. Back then I wrote that I didn't think DKos was a productive place anymore, and that the blogosphere didn't know how to have a Democratic president in power, since they're only defined by raging against a machine. Nothing since then has changed my mind, but the degree to which I think the "left" has gone off-course in this health debate brought me back to start expressing a minority view in comments.
Today, a front-page post from Hunter pushed me over the edge and I've decided to write my first diary in a long, long time. Here's what I think: the progressive left is now crossing the line from being a productive, "make him do it" force to a counter-productive force that is departing the reality-based community.
The post from Hunter made it all too clear: you have assigned the public options magical powers that it does not have, never will have, and never had to begin with. You have lost even basic knowledge of how the health reform is going to work, and gotten so whipped into a frenzy over the public option that you're in danger of preventing millions of people from improving their lives.
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