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Zhao Ziyang was the Premier of China during the Tiananmen Square Massacre; during the student protests that led up to it, he worked within the system to moderate the government response to it, subverting conservatives who wanted official condemnations of the protesters in the media. He paid dearly for using his position to oppose state violence - Prisoner of the State is a revelatory translation of hidden diaries he kept during his confinement, which opens a window into the inner workings of the Chinese state.
Christopher Hayes of the Nation has an article up called System Failure in which he discusses his disappointment with the administration, but concludes that we must support it.
Its ironic to advocate that I cede my convictions to political pragmatism, and ignore the abandonment of principal in the HCR bill. Political pragmatism is the reason I'm considering not voting with the party in the first place; the political pragmatism that has led good people like Sanders and Obama to abandon the principles they espoused eloquently in their campaigns - and I'm being urged to follow their example and bow to political pragmatism, also?
It seems like a fait accompli that we will not get a public option in this bill. I don't think this makes any real people happy - just juristic ones. The conservatives don't want a bill of any sort; those like myself, who believe that the current bill will create more problems than it solves, ardently oppose this one. Not even those who argue most stridently for this bill's passage are happy about it, as far as I can tell. What now?
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