2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Breaking: Krugman endorses Single Payer and Medicare for All!!! [View all]Jarqui
(10,150 posts)What bugs me is the folks like Krugman (who I usually like) or Hillary or so many others and the GOP, they don't even mention this when justifying their position. Maybe that's because they can't and take the position they do but Democrats shouldn't be leaving these people high and dry because their dying is "pragmatic".
Government of the people by the people for the people should take care of these people. I'm having a hard time reconciling where letting these people die from a lack of healthcare fits with "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" Dying from a lack of healthcare doesn't sound like much fun to me.
Who knows what Hillary really wants because she'll flip on a dime and she'll lie (which as a point of order, violates the charter of the Democratic Party
http://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.democrats.org/Downloads/DNC_Charter__Bylaws_9.17.15.pdf
"we pledge ourselves to open, honest endeavor"
That's the problem with assessing her policies. She lies or deceives so frequently, you know some of them are lies but you have no way of knowing for sure which ones.