The various candidates' health care plans served the same function as a peacock's tail: a display of ideological fitness, a way to compete for the affections of voters, and something to intimidate rivals with. None of them has a remote chance of passing right now in the Senate
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I agree with you regarding the need to flip the Senate. But I think people underestimate the potential for a drastic ideological shift in the D party & US from electing Sanders, on par with something like Reagan and the GOP. Otherwise, nothing will fundamentally change.
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Yeah, but the Senate is designed to be a brake on exactly that kind of rapid shift. Luckily I think it's possible to proceed on both fronts—try to get the revolutionary candidate elected, and also give him a legislature that at least commands a majority, to pass his agenda
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They’re only impossible insofar as the media and republicans define it as such. Why give them so much agency? The old way was propose and then go on tour convincing, to see what could be possible. Not to cut your arm off because republicans will never allow you to have two.
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