Fact is, politics is about uniting your friends and dividing your enemies. Unity builds strength, strength means victory, while division means defeat.
E Pluribus Unum, baby: Out of Many, One. Or as I like to put it "We're all in this thing together."
And/But if we fight -- hammer and tongs -- against each other (for example) about stripping the mandates out of the bill, what does that accomplish? It only unites and strengthens our enemies. After all, they were the ones who made the same argument against Social Security -- "Why should I pay when I won't get the benefit?"
Worse yet, "Why should I pay taxes, when I can spend the money better on what I want and need?"
If we are divided along that fault line, the Republicans will beat us over the head in the 2010 campaign and say, "We told you. We told you so. We told you that IT'S YOUR MONEY, not the government's."
Who wants to see people who belive that become more united? I don't.
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