America 1.1 -- Public Option for Health Care

Since the first day President Barack Obama tried to institute public health care into the United States, it has been misconstrued, altered and defecated on by the Right wing and often by even the "Left" wing (I use quotations because it is still right of center from a European or Canadian point of view).

Every time I watch CNN (thankfully not incredibly often), read the New York Times, or watch my Daily Show snippet of the day, I see Republicans yelling profanities and demonizing the President as some Nazi-loving mass murderer. I watch the United States with incredulity, not understanding exactly what the big problem that Americans have with their government doing something. In Canada, we pay taxes in exchange for services...in fact we do this in almost every country in the world. These services are provided by the government. Those streets you drive on? the government. Those electrical wires that bring at least your house (unfortunately not your mind) out of the 18th century? the government. That huge hunking army you have to fight all the wars you've started, monitor all the areas you've destabilized and maintain a military presence all over the world? The government. If the government or Barack Obama wanted to kill you America, it could do it a hell of a lot easier than with "death panels." There's a pretty little red button with a code that could end all life on Earth, but I'm not sure we'd miss all of you.

So I came to ask myself a number of questions:

Firstly, is the failure of health care reform in the United States Barack Obama's fault?

I think this has to be answered with yes and no. No, it's not his fault that the right wing has dominated his town hall meetings through their badgering, illogical questions (Calling it a Nazi policy is a disgusting question that should offend the conscience of any person in the world who knows anything beyond a 3rd grade education). It's also not his fault that they simply have more power in spreading their message and it's certainly not his fault for his policy because it's pretty good.

However, it is his fault that the Democratic party is not rallied behind him and continuously undermines his message. It is stupid that he even asks the American people what they want, he is being far too democratic and it is giving voice to the idiots who can't understand the system and are fed too many lies. He simply needs to push through the American health care reform, set up a public option without bothering to ask the people what they want. He's the most powerful person in the world and more than that, he was elected president to do these kinds of things and to make decisive decisions. Make the decision. Bring America to the 21st century and give them public health care.

Secondly, a question which really can't be answered in just one post but as food for thought:

What has made America lose its place as the last bastion of freedom, world leadership and instead become the least progressive country in the Western world?