• dumples@midwest.social
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    1 month ago

    The Affordable Care Act was based on the conservative plan for healthcare as a compromise. So they don’t have anything. A real progressive plan would be single payer

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      1 month ago

      This. Also it passed without Republican support so a few shitty Dems are really to blame for what we got. And Kamala isn’t going to go after it either. I know quite a few people who vote R for gun rights but want single payer healthcare. Both parties are very different, they suck in different ways and represent moneyed interests, not the people.

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        1 month ago

        Mostly Joe Lieberman if I remember correctly made it his mission to remove a single payer option. It’s hard to change the status quo and I think raising the minimum wage and making single payer health care will do a lot to build to help America and would be a winning Democratic strategy. I doubt it will happen but a man can dream.

        Also I can’t with single issue voters around gun rights.

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          If the Dems would stop trying to disarm the people they’d never lose another election. But they’re pretty bought into global governmental authoritarianism. Not Dem voters. The party. The R voters aren’t all fascists either. It’s just our political landscape is fucked.