text: Are you talking about "lefties" that are politicians? Who are these people? If anything, the Democratic Party has increasingly become Republican-lite, and does a very poor job of representing the progressive majority in this country.
  
  
  
  A perfect example of the problem:
  
  1. ACA IS the compromise. In fact, it's essentially the Heritage Foundation's plan and what the Republicans used to be behind.
  
  2. Democrats work to pass it, constantly asking for input from the Republicans. Except for some amendments, the Republicans refuse to play any part out of.....well, spite? If not racism.
  
  
  3. Republicans work almost in lockstep to try to roll back .... their own plan, because it is now associated with a black Democrat? And kick millions off of healthcare? And they worked very hard to write their "replacement" in secret. They didn't work very hard at the crafting of it, they worked very hard to keep it secret. And then used very unusual procedures to try to pass it.