What's the most important issue?

I think this was pretty important and the most significant story of the ones I perused, yet judging from the the replies on Free Republic, it hardly registered a ripple.

We are losing our country and our freedom, but people are focused in on other things.

The most replied to stories

• MUSLIM TROPHY IN SYRIA: LIFELESS BODY OF DECAPITATED CHRISTIAN CHILD [ comment: not that this isn't significant, but it isn't here in our own country.]
• Obama accuses gun control opponents of fighting to allow ‘dangerous people’ to own guns [ comment:  I don't see what Obama says as nearly as important as I see what we do or don't do about him.  We have to win the ObamaCare battle coming up.   Gun control is a dumb idea, sure, but isn't going anywhere in this Congress.  It's a distraction.]
• Vanity: Why Is Drudge NOT Covering Kenya Slaughter? [ again: This is not in America.  There's nothing for us in Kenya.  Our problem is right here.  ]
• Cruz Details Senate Strategy to Defund Obamacare [ well, okay.  Not everybody is distracted ]

There are other examples, of course.  Anyway, if the Obamacare fight ends in defeat, it will be because nobody understands what's going on.  Nobody understands it because nobody is talking about it.  It's largely about procedure, and the Obamacare supporters are hoping that they can confuse people long enough so that the Republicans just give up like they usually do.

Cruz explains the procedural battle ahead in the Senate.  There are those who are trying to muddy the waters.  The question is whether or not Reid will allow a majority vote on adding Obamacare back into the bill.  Cruz says he wants to filibuster that.  The rules says he can't, but that's not the point.  Reid could allow votes on it, but he doesn't want to.  He is protecting vulnerable red state Senators.  He doesn't want them to have to vote either way on this bill and they won't if he gets his way.

What's suffering here is the truth.  If some Senators had to express an honest opinion on this law, they'd be in trouble with their base.  That's what Reid is trying to avoid.  Aren't the voters in these states entitled to know where their Senators are on this issue?  Reid is helping them avoid being honest about their positions.

It's stuff like this that leads to a slow erosion of liberty.  It's now at a critical point.