I like that American left are miserable

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It could be that compromise is why we got Obamacare instead of nothing.

That's a good example of how even when things are done the Republican way, the Republicans don't budge an inch. Obamacare isn't Obama's brainchild. It is Mitt Romney's. It's a Republican healthcare program, and all the Republicans have done ever since, is to attack it.  They have been intentionally sabotaging it, and intentionally driving premiums up. They have intentionally caused double digit inflation in the cost of insurance. They have greenlighted the sale of junk plans. They have practically encouraged pharmaceutical companies to gouge consumers. 

Here is an article in which a Clinton style Democrat argues that it is time for the center to pass the baton of leadership to the Democratic Socialists, because compromise with Republicans has been completely untenable, and the center's calculus concerning compromise has been proven to be 100% wrong.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/...rad-delong