Reply #13: so the left is to blame for their failure of the public option?

[Ken Murray]

Yes.

You'd better get used to one of the rules of life: You only have control over what YOU do, not over what your opponent does.

If you fail, it is because YOU didn't do a sufficient job.

Why is this mindset important? Because if you take the position that it is someone else's fault, then there is NOTHING that YOU can do to change such an outcome in the future.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein"

Don't you get tired of losing? Don't you wonder why, when we progressives follow the same strategy, and lose, lose, lose, that we expect something different?

Because we are smarter than Einstein? NOT!

When we lose an argument, or an election, we need to understand that WE didn't do a sufficient job, that WE need to change our message, that WE need to change our approach.

If you wait for the other side, who just won, to change their approach so that we can win, you will be waiting out in the cold a LONG, LONG time.......