Here We Go Again . . .

Listening to yesterday's edition of Democracy Now! I was reminded of why the American left is a mess.  We've forgotten the concept of unity - if somebody on the left does something that we don't agree with, they automatically get labeled as an enemy - Other.  So, the left gets more and more fragmented and ultimately it becomes more about ideological purity than real-world revolution.

Today, it's about single-payer healthcare.  Granted, it's important.  Granted, the Congressional hearings and Obama's moves so far are a bit frustrating for those of us (apparently 60% of the citizenry) that support single-payer.  But the rhetoric is telling . . . the representative from Single-Payer Action Network said something along the lines of this: "the enemy is no longer the insurance industry, the enemy is now the corporate Democrats like Obama."

Obama's not perfect.  And he certainly doesn't represent everything that I believe in.  But we on the left should be supporting a President (certainly early in his administration) that comes from us.  Somehow, I don't think there were many conservatives that called Bush the enemy when he did (the few) things that rankled their feathers.