As the Senate Finance Committee debacle and the idiotic circular logic of senators Conrad and Baucus are on everybody's mind today, I've started to wonder why the progressives in the US haven't been agressive in responding to the right wing crazies?
Why hasn't there been any attempt at organizing a big rally in Washington D.C.? Why are the progressives in this country, who represent the majority of the Americans in this health care matter, so anemic? What would be a better way of making the case for public option and strong health care reform than to organize a rally in D.C?
If the public option is as strongly approved by the American public as most diaries here let you understand (the polls are a bit sketchy, although generally in favor of public option) why hasn't anyone tried to organize a really big pro-health care reform rally? Why the grassroots are not doing anything? The teabaggers could do it, why can't we? It would sent a really big signal to the Blue Dogs and conservadems in the Senate that the American public can be noisy FOR reform too.
Is this a stupid idea? Has this been tried but it failed for some reason? For your information, I live in D.C. and I'm not a US citizen but I just moved here and I'm passionate about this issue. I'm a European and I think it's time that you guys get decent health care too.
Is a big rally too much to ask or is it already too late for that?