People that are terrified of losing their health care wont fight back when corporations exploit them for cheap labor...

And when people are scared it is easy to redirect that to a target of your choice- immigrants, muslims, etc... remember how TB helped whip Jody and Rob into a frenzy about how the muslims are coming to molest our women? It worked so well they voted for a candidate that married an immigrant (probably an illegal one at that- he never did provide the documentation he promised) and bragged about molesting women...

Stupid and Scared is what conservatives need to survive... they only thrive when a large portion of the population lives in terror of joining the destitute class the conservatives malign... and when they are too stupid to understand that it is the conservatives that have rigged the system to put them on the edge of that cliff.

And it is WORKING:

This 'Health' bill will kill many thousands more Americans than any terrorist group could ever hope to- and the conservatives know it... they are banking on it- those deaths will serve as a warning to the rest of us that we better not do anything that hurts their profits, or we are next. Only %16 of americans support this bill- they don't care, in fact they MAY fail to pass it because the more radical conservatives think it doesn't kill enough of their constituents... They want to thin the herd and get a windfall in the form of tax-cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

That is all they ever stood for, but some were too stupid to realize it.