2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRightwing repubs and dems alike wanna kill single-payer in the crib again
with their fallacious/erroneous assaults on costs and "pie in the sky" characterizations.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/186782/say-gov-ensure-healthcare-coverage.aspx
I'd like to thank Bernie for making it such a large part of our national conversation again, and condemn those who are trying once again to dampen it's promotion by piling assorted bags of garbage https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/09/15/no-bernie-sanders-is-not-going-to-bankrupt-america-to-the-tune-of-18-trillion/ on top of it. Obviously that type has no problem with the millions that will remain uninsured under whatever Hillarycare they find themselves behind, nor the human misery that will also necessarily accompany it, because they are just hapless victims of their unreasonable desire for pie in the sky, who need to suck it up and tug on their damn bootstraps. We all have them, no?
It's almost like BS is more worthy of condemnation for promoting it than the rightwing types are for obstructing it, given the huge disparity in the count of such respective efforts here on DU. But then, how can Hillarians condemn rightwingers over something their candidate opposes as well eh?
The reality is, an HC presidency insures 4-8 more years of no movement in the "right" direction of SP, and all the negative ramifications that comes with that, much as say, the relative and otherwise dem inaction on inequality and climate change have made those mountains taller and harder for the younger citizens to climb in the future. It's almost like inaction can have no consequences or something, as long as it's a Hillary-type demanding it.
Apparently they no longer believe that "change" stuff that BHO peddled, because now all they're peddling is "can't do"/AWK AWK, BUT POLITICAL REALITIES/"PIE IN THE SKY!!!, you fools and tools" stuff.
It seems that the only confidence they have is in next to no change at all with a Clinton presidency, unless of course she continues the rightward drift in DC, which will no doubt be accepted and excused under the "well, it's not as rightwingnut as it otherwise woulda been" rationale.
Sadly they seem to think it better to rinse and repeat with all this so to speak, than to engage in the Network Moment-like behavior that they find so abusive on the part of Bernie supporters, and like they have all the moral currency in this game as rightwing-liters.
villager
(26,001 posts)Always plenty of bucks around for that!
but that's so leftwing "old school"
we all need to jump on the new 3rdway/new dem/new school ways of thinking...lol, where killing people through war and whatnot is a greater priority and moral imperative than reducing human misery and loss of life with single payer
have a good day
mmonk
(52,589 posts)in it for them.
stupidicus
(2,570 posts)it seems
Here I thought the whole idea behind having a gov is for the betterment of its citizens in all ways possible -- which wuld explain the insistence SP is impossible
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Or perhaps it was always dead on arrival in Washington DC?
Even Bernie has admitted single-payer has no chance and would never get passed in Washington.
stupidicus
(2,570 posts)so what