by the campaign contributions (aka bribes) from multinational corporations to push for the strongest modern FDR agenda.

We jump on our president but we needed hundreds of Alan Graysons pushing for dramatic Democratic change. We needed our party to strategize before his inauguration about pushing through Medicare for All on basic compassionate grounds in view of the great suffering inflicted on our people through the Republican administration pushing our economy off a cliff.

But our Democrats had been compromised by campaign contributions for decades already. And many have used Republican opposition as an excuse not to promote the best interests of the majority of our citizens, like national health security.

When we didn't get Medicare for All during Bill Clinton's presidency, I wondered how so many Democrats could have avoided doing something that would have given our party millions more loyal fans for decades to come. Once you've experienced national health security, as I did living overseas for a while, you know how deeply moving that can be. Why on earth would they not have done something that could have ensured them victories for years? Something more powerful than electoral success was at work back then and still rules the roost today.

And the Republicans look like strong tough guys because they band together as a block to support the multinational corporations that rule our government. They have the easy job of standing up for Big Money and Plutocracy.

It may have been impossible for Democrats to assemble as a unit, to be willing to sacrifice millions in campaign contributions from privatized medical insurance, Big Pharma, and other strong corporations to push through Medicare for All. I wish they had had that discussion and readied themselves for that fight before President Obama took office.

We would have been so glad to have the terror of medical costs removed from us that we would have voted for Democrats for years to come. Grateful citizens could provide a counterweight to the truckloads of corporate campaign cash and corporate funded smear campaigns.

But I guess that just was not enough to make the whole group of Democratic legislators push our president and country into using our taxes to give us basic national health security. Even after the Republicans had crashed our economy with their reconciliation tax cuts and trillion-dollar wars.