I see two issues at play regarding the failure of the president to gain popular traction for the healthcare overhaul. The first is the basic misconception the left has about the average American. Simply put, they believe, for some reason, that the true heart’s desire of every American is for the government to take massive control of large segments of our lives. It is such a mind-numbingly stupid assumption, it is difficult to address.

Second, and this was touched on earlier, is the Left’s belief that most people possess a severely unsophisticated method of processing information. Perfect example… the statement about the ‘facts’ regarding life expectancy. France has the best healthcare system in the world? The U.S. is ranked somewhere below Morocco? Common sense is for more valuable than an Ivy League degree, because thousands of Frenchmen coming to the U.S. every year for medical treatment illustrates the obvious. No one is banging down Italy’s door. The world comes here.

This last point stems for the Left’s insistence that the market is not only immoral, but inefficient, and tells us nothing about the comparative worth of the products within that market.