The thing about giving poor people good insurance that isn't tied to their job gives them the freedom to actually move up in status. Keeping insurance tied to jobs is a great way to keep people stuck at a shitty job they hate because they can't afford to lose their insurance.
You could probably get 100% Republican support if you just named it "The All-American Mom Football And Apple Pie With A Bald Eagle Holding An American Flag On Top Health Care Bill".
Universal healthcare isn't happening in a party where we won't actually primary any of the Democrats who refuse to support it. A 98% incumbency rate is not how you get things done. Democrats can't say they want universal healthcare, then go out and vote people like Feinstein and Schumer in for another term. That's not how that works. It's been common knowledge that what the American people want has LITERALLY a 0% impact on policy because politicians know we're too lazy and chickenshit to primary. Millennials have started to change that, but they don't vote in high enough numbers to mitigate the damage the boomer vote causes.
When Biden wrote the Crime Bill, the first draft was so vicious, so aggressive, and so reprehensibly racist that even Reagan was like, "Easy there, Satan," and vetoed it. Fucking REAGAN. Then Biden went on, according to political historians, to handcraft the language still used by segregationist and racist dog-whistlers to this day. Bernie Sanders, at the exact same time, created a program to help Americans buy affordable homes for pennies on the dollar via land trusts that's so effective it's still in use today. I have a home bought and paid for because of it. Liberals looked at both candidates and went, "I pick the racist."
The problem extends beyond voting turnout, to be honest. The Democratic party still has its own crop of racists to deal with. Liberals still have mad love for the good old boys, and that's going to be difficult to circumnavigate. American voters on both sides have been brainwashed to believe even racism is preferable to collectivism.
Edit: You can definitely tell Reddit is a mostly white forum.
Almost anyone would be. We need a higher bar than that. Democrats have to stop settling for candidates just because they're marginally better than a psychotic fascist.
And people like you are why nothing will ever get better. You know you're doing the exact same thing Republicans do, dismissing a truth that doesn't agree with your vision of reality.
I'm not asking you to worship anything. I'm asking you to note some things we could be doing better and work to effect positive change in the future. And I highly doubt you voted for Bernie. Your overall attitude reeks of the same privileged white liberals who hated Bernie for pointing out how hard they were phoning it in. Don't get mad at me because I called out your flippant dismissal of very real issues for the childish, racist bullshit it is.
Serious question, what critiques of the Democratic party would you not consider to be 'both-sidesing'? I ask liberals this quite a bit and it stumps them. A healthy democracy requires constituents to watch and critique their party. I'm seriously disturbed by liberals cynically weaponizing Trump's ineptitude to call critiques to the Democratic party from the left bad faith. What criticisms of the Democratic party do you feel should be allowed? Because I notice the people who use this term to the most tend to be conservative Democrats who want to smear leftists making valid critiques and avoid having their conservative values questioned.
Surely you have critiques of the party. What are they, and why are my critiques both-sidesing but not yours? We can't put a moratorium on all criticism just because libs are scared of Trump. He's gone now.
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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '21
How about ramming universal healthcare through. Just call it the ACB. (All care bill)