THE TRUE BELIEVERS OF BOTH PARTIES EXIST TO BE EXPLOITED:

Obama’s Reprehensible Rhetoric Against Single-Payer (Matthew Rothschild, March 3, 2010, The Progressive)

When Barack Obama gave his “this is it” speech on health care reform on March 3, he once again swerved out of his way to hit advocates of a single-payer system.

He said: “On one end of the spectrum, there are some who have suggested scrapping our system of private insurance and replacing it with government-run health care. Though many other countries have such a system, in America it would be neither practical nor realistic.” [...]

[H]e exploited advocates of a single-payer system as a foil to say, in not so many words, “I’m not an extremist like they are.”