That 60 seat majority included Joe “totally a real Democrat” Manchin and a deceased Ted Kennedy, and they still passed the Affordable Care Act which was very much a “big fucking deal.”
The ACA was a national version of the Heritage foundation’s for profit friendly Healthcare bandaid that bent over backward to keep for profit insurer’s cut in and was initially instituted by a Republican governor. It didn’t even put us in the right direction, because the right direction is ending the role of private insurer middlemen in Healthcare, which is yet another national disease we suffer. It insured more people at the cost of expanding the profit base of the market capitalists, the enemies of almost everyone else whether they love that enemy or not.
The Democrats have never done what needs to be done, take some of the profit from the oligarchs that profit off society and only succeeded with societal infrastructure they don’t want to pay for, and give it to society through the commons.
Until a party starts addressing the greedy profiteer elephant in the room, nothing can improve, so nothing will improve until this gold plated cesspool collapses, almost certainly by the impacts of capitalist made climate change.
This system is comically too far captured by the capital market to have any reasonable hope for rehabilitation. It has protections upon protections, both through effective propaganda cannels and then force, to prevent any economic rehabilitation that doesn’t hand even more GDP to the 0.1% at everyone else’s expense.
The Affordable Care Act fell far short of being what we really needed, where millions still suffer with unaffordable premiums and worthless coverage. What we need is universal healthcare.
Joe Manchin wasn’t a god. They could have dealt with him if the political will existed, just like they could have dealt with Joe Lieberman back in 2009. Mobilize the people against him, Go after his financial supporters, go after his friends and family, make his life a living hell for defying the will of the Party and the People.
But you know what? Raising hell against Republicans is possible too - it’s possible to organize against them no matter which party they’re in. Go after them in their districts, go after their financial backers, go after the special interests that support them, go after the people that vote Republican, friends and family, I don’t fucking care, whatever it takes. Make them suffer our political wrath and they’ll fall in line.
Obama had a 60 seat supermajority in the Senate.
It’s not a lack of ability. It’s a lack of will.
That 60 seat majority included Joe “totally a real Democrat” Manchin and a deceased Ted Kennedy, and they still passed the Affordable Care Act which was very much a “big fucking deal.”
The ACA was a national version of the Heritage foundation’s for profit friendly Healthcare bandaid that bent over backward to keep for profit insurer’s cut in and was initially instituted by a Republican governor. It didn’t even put us in the right direction, because the right direction is ending the role of private insurer middlemen in Healthcare, which is yet another national disease we suffer. It insured more people at the cost of expanding the profit base of the market capitalists, the enemies of almost everyone else whether they love that enemy or not.
The Democrats have never done what needs to be done, take some of the profit from the oligarchs that profit off society and only succeeded with societal infrastructure they don’t want to pay for, and give it to society through the commons.
Until a party starts addressing the greedy profiteer elephant in the room, nothing can improve, so nothing will improve until this gold plated cesspool collapses, almost certainly by the impacts of capitalist made climate change.
This system is comically too far captured by the capital market to have any reasonable hope for rehabilitation. It has protections upon protections, both through effective propaganda cannels and then force, to prevent any economic rehabilitation that doesn’t hand even more GDP to the 0.1% at everyone else’s expense.
The Affordable Care Act fell far short of being what we really needed, where millions still suffer with unaffordable premiums and worthless coverage. What we need is universal healthcare.
Joe Manchin wasn’t a god. They could have dealt with him if the political will existed, just like they could have dealt with Joe Lieberman back in 2009. Mobilize the people against him, Go after his financial supporters, go after his friends and family, make his life a living hell for defying the will of the Party and the People.
But Democrats will never do something like that
Or they could have bought a single Republican…
That probably wouldn’t work. They’d be outbid.
But you know what? Raising hell against Republicans is possible too - it’s possible to organize against them no matter which party they’re in. Go after them in their districts, go after their financial backers, go after the special interests that support them, go after the people that vote Republican, friends and family, I don’t fucking care, whatever it takes. Make them suffer our political wrath and they’ll fall in line.