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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Replying to @Pinboard
Bernie's been pushing for single payer since at least the early 90s. Pretty ridiculous to characterize his M4A proposal as a display of ideological fitness.
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Replying to @jgyanar
You're misunderstanding me. I am not calling the plans insincere, but insofar as they can't just be imposed by the winner from the White House, they bear a distant relationship to political reality. The way to get anything resembling like them passed is to elect Senators to do it
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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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Replying to @Pinboard
Agreed! So why all the lukewarm Bernie support, Maciej? :b
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I personally don't think he can win
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