Acquiescence from the powerful, silence from our leaders. They did not protect us.

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11. Don't mistake silence for lack of resolve, planning, or readiness to act.

We are a democratic republic composed of we the people and our representatives. While the representative part has failed for now, it just means that the ball is now in the court of we the people.

The people have now spoken powerfully on the issue of our right to healthcare. It was sparked by a tragic event that those in power, those who have usurped our power, tried to frame this event narrowly. They were unsuccessful. Our fallen free speech institutions, the NYTs and the LATs and the WPs are shocked.

Some of our reps are shocked and have tried to draw the wrong lesson while others have come forward to meet us where we are; the victims of a healthcare industry set up to serve us and make us healthy but which has been deformed to impoverish us and make they few fabulously rich by denying service.

The captains of the industry are running to hide, taking their personal information down from their glossy marketing websites

I suspect the scariest thing is that the anger of the people runs deep but also wide across the political spectrum.