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In reply to the discussion: For this reason, Nancy Pelosi needs to be replaced [View all]Proud Liberal Dem
(24,446 posts)I want some kind of universal/single payer/medicare-for-all system as much as everybody else but I also realize that, regardless of what some people say, it's not actually a slam-dunk for getting something passed anytime soon (enhanced background checks poll well too but we can't even those actually passed either) and IMHO we can't afford to make it- or anything else- a particular litmus test for candidates for office, leadership, etc.- right now. We still need to ensure that the progress that we HAVE made in terms of the ACA doesn't get destroyed/rolled-back at the moment. Then we need to rebuild our Congressional majorities and win some more statehouses in 2018 and 2020 and, of course, getting Trump out of the WH at least by 2020. We have a brilliant House tactician in Nancy Pelosi and, by no means, should we run her out of her position over this. Her critics got a chance to vote for somebody else at the start of this Congress and they still overwhelmingly picked her. Her critics need to follow her lead and support her until the next Congress and regular opportunity to pick another leader comes along. Now is the time to be fighting against Trump/GOP, not each other over things that are not realistically going to be enacted anytime soon.