Cast your memory back to a not-so-distant time. Across the blogosphere, across the diaries, even splashed across the front page of this very site, the Progressive movement was united - single payer had been abandoned, but the public option was our line in the sand. This far, and no farther.
I was proud, and yet at the same time humbled, to be a part of that. At last, it seemed, we had our act together. Coupled with genuine representation, it felt like this time, finally, our nation could take its rightful place once again as one of the "good guys." And I worked and fought to push it along, as did so many of you. And we scored our victories, and we inched the ball leftward, day by day and phone call by phone call. This was going to be it.
As it turns out, a line in the sand only lasts until the tide comes in.
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