Because it has already been described as the death of "Liberalism" (my words J.V.) back in the late eighties, and early nineties. Back when William Greider described how things really worked. With books like "Who Will Tell The People," and "Secrets Of The Temple."

First, "Big Money" gets anything liberal that might get through watered down. And I mean really watered down. Then, later, when they have more veto protection, they do everything they can to cripple how the legislation was supposed to work; with the usual approach of either starving it of funding, crippling the administration of the legislation through whatever kinds of appointments, and rule changes they can get away with, as well as keeping up the propaganda efforts to say it was bad in the first place (even though, despite the controversy, people end up realizing that the affordable care might actually be worth mandating coverage). Do all of that, in various combinations of course, mix with continuous court challenges, because you have also gamed that setup as well, and eventually you do indeed make it be something that will just not be allowed to work anymore.

They want things their way and they don't care what you want; at least as long as what you want falls outside of the bounds of properly branded, "anesthetized in the process of being made to want, just so," consumption. And in that context, don't even think of asking questions you shouldn't have the information to be able to form in the first place.

Unless you, as the working majority of Americans (and those who used to be, and are retired now), wrest control back in the hands of working people, we will not be able to save this planet. It is as simple as that.

Simple because we simply do not have the time to be arguing at all about who's pocket the cost is going to come out of. We must, in fact, abandon the whole idea of money itself; not only because we no longer need a "universal experience translator," as money was intended to be, because we have electrified experience retrieval to do that for us now, to an absolutely amazing degree, but also because the effort we must undertake can't be done with a cost based economy at all, in the first place; at least not a necessarily multi-pronged effort, of this magnitude, in pretty much every dimension you can imagine, of social interaction. Both because markets will have no hope of remaining stable, with the ever increasing extreme weather effects that are in store for us, but also because of the fact of excess baggage, that money carries inexorably now, and which always gets in the way. The baggage of who gets what, and how much, and why. And of course everybody wanting to get their beaks wet, while making sure it's anybody but them who has to take the cost hit. All joined at the hip with the inevitable profiteering, which is precisely the corruption the baggage was, at least partly, meant to do away with; and if money, and the system that supports is left to keep breathing at all, you can be sure the corruption will continue, and at least to the degree that only insane profit can create a hothouse environment for.

And simple also because the current inequality of outcomes, that gross, income maldistribution has created over the last several decades now, will not allow social cohesion to be maintained if really difficult times are coming; the very time when we will need cohesion at least as great as the "Greatest Generation" demonstrated the last time we had to mobilize as a nation.

We all know that, in the end, it will be working people who get the job done of taking us back from the brink, if it is to be anybody. The only question is if we will be able to do it in a way that benefits us, as well as the planet; as opposed to just letting them continue to benefit themselves and to hell with everything else. We can either give up and let them ride us to hell, or we can demand that they negotiate our doing a complete employee buyout of all of it, so we can organize ourselves to do the fix properly. We can charge them a parting tax, to help grease the skids for us, but they will still be able to walk away with the major majority of their total asset value, with all debts then wiped out for everybody (save for the bond we issue to ourselves, from ourselves, to refinance the whole phase over -- keeping a managed form of Capitalism temporarily so we can plan, and instigate, our translations to a new type of organization, with some sense of calm purpose). We even help them set up in new diggs someplace else. They can go on being rich people, and we can get on with saving the planet, and regaining our sanity in the process. To do that, however, means to chose to be ready to give it all you've got to get the job done. Just like some parents, and grandparents (etc), did for us back in the forties.

That's the choice facing you, right now. What will you do about it?

The referenced article quick list (be sure to check out the "See Also" section at the very bottom of this post):

1:Federal judge in Texas strikes down Affordable Care Act

2:An Upheaval at the Ends of the World

3:The Oil Industry’s Covert Campaign to Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules

4:Amazon and Walmart add more robots, but insist they won’t terminate jobs

5:Criminal justice reformers reach cusp of history — but worry about last-minute hitches

Federal judge in Texas strikes down Affordable Care Act

An Upheaval at the Ends of the World

The Oil Industry’s Covert Campaign to Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules

Amazon and Walmart add more robots, but insist they won’t terminate jobs

Criminal justice reformers reach cusp of history — but worry about last-minute hitches

See Also:
[Post Note: The only real hard truth here is that this is what happens when we let them decide what is valuable or not. As well as what happens when we forget that it is supposed to be government of the people, for the people, and not government of the markets, for the marketeers. J.V.]

The Hard Truths of Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy

[Post Note: And how long do you think it would take them to gut this legislation; even assuming you could get a watered down vcrsion of it passed? J.