Reply #81: No, we're on a new course. After 30 years of deregulation Obama is re-regulating

[Radical Activist]

every sector of our economy from health care, to banking, lending, credit cards, and energy. Bellyaching about compromises in those bills does not change the reality that we're headed in a fundamentally different direction than we've been going since Reagan took the White House.
I don't know what causes the inability to acknowledge that but it's something other than ideology. Cynicism? Weighed down by too many past disappointments?

All of these changes set up the kind of long term institutional reforms that will keep things going in the right direction. Such as the HCR provision that allows states to set up a single payer system. Once one state does it, others will see if it works well and then follow suit.
Obama is not Bill Clinton. He isn't slowing the decline. He's reversing it. This is what progress looks like.