horse of george

Does the democrats, the hyper ones that is, the progressives, does their insistence on a public option reveal why they can never be allowed to run a powerful country like the US - their sentimentality, their framing everything with emotional imperatives that are largely disconnected from the realities of governing something as unsentimental as a superpower - or does it indicate their extremists have adopted the Machiavellian artifices so ably employed by republican extremists ie the 'public option' would be a great political tool for them in the same way god and guns are great utilities for the GOP? Important difference, I think - but, then again, maybe not? I mean, how useful can the tool be if you don't act in a manner consistent with the ideals associated with it? Which is why, lacking alternatives, better a conservative ideologue than a liberal one?