The typical DKos answer, right up front:
People won't listen to me!! (Imagine whimpering and whining tones amplified well above the pain threshold, because, in the DKos tradition, feelings will be damaged)
Who listens to anybody around here. Nobody? Anybody? (I fear a poll is coming up)
Everybody is writing furiously and reading haphazardly. What on earth can we possibly do???? It's almost as if the people around here are children throwing rocks at each other, and inadvertently breaking windows in the course of it. At the same time, we're all screaming, "the sky is falling!" (Which it may be, but that's not fixing any windows).
There's a simple way to decide whether to support the passage of the Health Care bill working its way through the Senate. But, people here won't do it. Everyone's a philosopher these days. Nobody is looking at the facts anymore.
I'm going to tell you what the secret solution is in a second (but first this message from Keith Olbermann - "Waaaaahh." and another from Ed Schultz, "Waaahhh, only louder.").
It's a simple process requiring thought and research on a level anyone can do it, even a Congresscritter! The same thought process can be applied to help anyone decide whether to support the Senate bill, the House bill, the reconciled bill in conference, or the final bill that goes (or doesn't go) to the President.
The same process will work to decide whom to vote for (or whether to vote at all) in the midterms, in the Presidential election of 2012 and forward.
What is it? Well..... HERE IT IS!!!
Stop worrying about the philosophical strangulation, the double-dealing and the sellouts, connivers, powerbrokers, lobbyists and pundits and the chatter they produce. Put 'em out of your mind. (You may have to say, "ohmmmm" quietly for a few moments to achieve this.)
Then, figure out what the bill will do FOR people you personally know that have issues with health care and health insurance, and figure out, on balance, whether there is any good stuff in there. If there is, support it. If not, oppose it!
See? That was easy!
Here's the advantage of this strategy. You won't have to F*CK Joe Lieberman, which is a fate worse than death, especially if you're a straight man or a woman of taste. My gay friends wouldn't have F*CK him either, if they were so inclined.
You won't have to decide whether your admiration for Slinkerwink outweighs you own personal secret admiration and regard for Harry Reid.
You won't have to read any more diaries about polls, obscure Democratic seats in Tennessee, Chuck Grassley or Steve King.
In short, life for you can begin to have meaning. Your aura will be at peace. Your inner light will glow. You will not have to eat butter brickle ice cream compulsively.
And, you'l have time to compose your next diary about Israeli/Palestinian issues.
That is all.