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Bernie Sanders on what we should steal from Denmark
... "In Denmark, everyone is guaranteed health care, college education is free, parents receive 1-year of paid paternity leave & workers don’t make less than $22 an hour," Sanders said. "Let's steal those ideas" ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/01/28/senator-bernie-sanders-president-donald-trump-greenland-denmark-health-care/77994162007/
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Not the same thing, but I'll close my eyes and maybe the cinnamon and sugar will take me there. 
Yummy! I'd have to skip my lunch though.....
>> you should know nothing has a chance in hell of passing without party unity.
That's partially true but rather a simplistic characterization.
>> Now we need to convince the centrists to back what our man Bernie has been saying for years.
Rather than waiting-and-waiting to "convince the centrists" to go all-in on "Bernie's" plan
I ask, why wait? Why not try to build and improve on what we already have?
People who wait for perfection or who think that nothing can be accomplished until there are no more "evil" centrists are essentially sabotaging themselves and fulfilling their own prophecy. Instead, why is there so much opposition to doing the things now that can be done now?
Let's see what Bernie's plan is for that. Rather than using his position to lecture Democrats on what we oughta be doing with a laundry list of shoulda-woulda-coulda, I think that he's in a perfect position to actually make a difference himself.
He can work with his many friends in the Senate to come up with something (anything) that helps to build on the ACA and to make it better and stronger. You'd like that, right? You're not opposed to that, are you?
Sadly, I think that too many people would rather wait for perfection (and have nothing in the meantime). As I've always pointed out, the prevalent all-or-nothing philosophy is a losing one. It's not the "evil" centrists that are holding things up. Instead is a lack of willingness for many to be willing to accept compromise, and incremental progress (which is STILL progress by the way) and to find common ground.
Let's see some legislation that actually has a chance of passing. Let's see some real-world coalition building that reflects the reality of today's political climate. That's the real hold-up.
The bill you mentioned was EIGHT years ago. It didn't go very far, did it? Why not? What's been done to rewrite, change, adjust things since then? What has been done to find the parts that CAN be agreed upon and implement those? After all, something is better than nothing, right? A little improvement here and there is better than NOTHING while sit around and wait and wait and wait for all of the "evil" centrists to be voted out of office. (HINT: That's not going to happen.)
That's partially true but rather a simplistic characterization.
>> Now we need to convince the centrists to back what our man Bernie has been saying for years.
Rather than waiting-and-waiting to "convince the centrists" to go all-in on "Bernie's" plan
I ask, why wait? Why not try to build and improve on what we already have?
People who wait for perfection or who think that nothing can be accomplished until there are no more "evil" centrists
are essentially sabotaging themselves and fulfilling their own prophecy. Instead, why is there so much opposition to doing the things now that can be done now?
Let's see what Bernie's plan is for that. Rather than using his position to lecture Democrats on what we oughta be doing with a laundry list of shoulda-woulda-coulda, I think that he's in a perfect position to actually make a difference himself.
He can work with his many friends in the Senate to come up with something (anything) that helps to build on the ACA and to make it better and stronger. You'd like that, right? You're not opposed to that, are you?
Sadly, I think that too many people would rather wait for perfection (and have nothing in the meantime). As I've always pointed out, the prevalent all-or-nothing philosophy is a losing one. It's not the "evil" centrists
that are holding things up. Instead is a lack of willingness for many to be willing to accept compromise, and incremental progress (which is STILL progress by the way) and to find common ground.
Let's see some legislation that actually has a chance of passing. Let's see some real-world coalition building that reflects the reality of today's political climate. That's the real hold-up.
The bill you mentioned was EIGHT years ago. It didn't go very far, did it? Why not? What's been done to rewrite, change, adjust things since then? What has been done to find the parts that CAN be agreed upon and implement those? After all, something is better than nothing, right? A little improvement here and there is better than NOTHING while sit around and wait and wait and wait for all of the "evil" centrists
to be voted out of office. (HINT: That's not going to happen.)
Did King Christian X of Denmark Wear a Yellow Star in Support of the Danish Jews?
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/king-christian-x-of-denmark
No, he did not. According to popular legend, King Christian X of Denmark chose to wear a yellow star in support of the Danish Jews during the German occupation of Denmark.
In another version, the Danish people decided to wear yellow stars. Both of these particular stories are fictional.
In fact, unlike Jews in other countries under German occupation, Jews in Denmark never wore an identification mark such as a yellow star.
The legend conveys an important historical truth, however: both the King and the majority of the Danish people stood by their Jewish citizens and were instrumental in saving almost all of them from Nazi persecution and death.
