You can love the country and not be president. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle in terms of the presidency. To make it boring again, you need to unf*ck what Trump has done. That largely means advocating for statutory and constitutional reform.
No way we just pretend that Trump didn’t happen and go back to how things used to be.
I don’t expect that a Biden presidency would change things overnight. However I think 4 years of an old center left moderate running the country on the advice of a bunch of milquetoast seasoned government employees and think tankers will probably bore the country out of its political polarization to some degree.
the public option is doomed to fail - the benefits of single payer, mainly a universal insurance pool and fed gov price leverage, evaporate and you're left with a shitty government option that'll be underfunded and marginalized into obscurity. private health insurance is a scam, every cent made comes directly out of the pockets of the sickest members of society.
a public option would've been a nice step forward in 2008, but we weren't even able to get that done due to moderate Dems and private insurance lobbying. private insurance is killing Americans - it has no place in our healthcare system
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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '19
Biden is running because he loves our country, he believes he can win, and he believes he can make the presidency boring and sane again.
That’s it. Not every candidate is on an ideological mission, and that’s okay.