[lbo-talk] The possibilities of failing upwards with healthcare

[Carrol Cox]

I would be interested in hearing of even one instance of legislation
which on the one side is strongly supported by _passive_ public opinion
(revealed inpolls), on the other side strongly resisted by an important
sector of capital, which nevertheless passed. My positon of course is
that even _minority_ public opinion, if expressed in action 'on the
streets' and in other disruptive ways, can be passed even if both
important money _and_ majority opinion (expressed in polls) wer against
it.

Polls, letters to Congress, etx. will never get legislation or other
government action which is opposed by any significan money intersts.

Carrol

Michael Perelman wrote:
> 
> But not enough to go up against big monied interests.
> 
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 04:39:19PM -0400, SA wrote:
> >
> > Yeah. In other words, because they care about public opinion.
> 
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