This diary will be short, but I live in the middle of Wignuttia and they are demoralized by the recent ACA ruling, but here is the good part, many of them don't know much about the ACA and the parts of it that any moral person would find good (not rejecting people with pre-existing conditions). I repeat.
Most people do not understand this law at all!
Wingnut #1: OMG, Obama is bringing socialized medicine! It'll be just like the nazis all over again!
Me: What don't you like about the affordable care act?
Wingnut #1: The Affordable what?
I have convinced three dyed in the wool Glen Beck-ites that they agree with the ACA. These people are generally nice people, but they saw some blond baby faced guy on television and they had a kindergartner's understanding of history, so it was really easy for him to re-program them. They just parroted the "socialist medicine" trope, until I explained to them that leukemia patients now get care. It takes a real sociopath to not care about leukemia patients, especially little kids. I don't think I got them to turn off the blaze, but for a split second, there was some humanity.
We need to knock the Republicans down so that they are destroyed with this. Republicans always know how to take defeat and turn it into victory, so do not think that this one Supreme Court win will make them disappear, you have to vaporize them. I'm not liberal, so I can communicate this without the kumbaya we all need to sit around in a circle or discuss why single payer would have been better.
I want to see commercials of leukemia patients with letters from their HMOs telling them they were denied coverage and thanking Obama for saving their lives. I want to see people who are now free to switch jobs or leave their jobs and thanking President Obama for giving them the FREEDOM to choose their OWN HEALTHCARE, and that they are now enjoying the LIBERTY of having their kids on their insurance plans until they are 26. The right will respond predictably. I want them smearing cancer patients and calling them socialists so that they are undeniably miscreants. Right wingers are predictably mean, so now is the time to really punch them in the gut so they don't stand again.
Do not go back to talking about the economy until every American actually understands what's in the health care law! The wingnuts will look like scary idiots, I've seen it happen, it can be done on a grand scale.