Trump..... A couple of days ago I ended the federal education department. I thought I might wanna check out what the little people are thinking.
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If you go to Blue sky, you'll see a bunch of people who don't understand it took a lot of bobbitting to get a deal the GoP couldn't fuck with, and it was very basic and only helped the poorest Americans. It was the barest start of many things to come, which didn't.
It's important to keep that mind-boggling amount of compromise in mind when looking backward, because that prez tried staying within and respecting the government system. This is what it was before absolutely shitting on the three branches became the norm.
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Thanks for dropping the “public option” after going into closed door negotiations with the insurance companies for three weeks and coming out with a mandate handing them millions of new captive market participants and putting few, very sacred few limitations or regulatory requirements for how to run their industry. Thanks for dismantling your campaign infrastructure when the GOP started playing “the heel”.
This is the reason why he stopped Bernie. He (and many others in the Democratic Party leadership) knew that only a huge populist movement like Bernie’s could tear power out of the hands of financial/industrial Oligarchs. He’s terrified that if we get some variation of universal healthcare in his lifetime, EEEEEEEVERYONE is going to go back through all that bullshit they said, all the excuses they made, and rub their faces in it. Not only that but also most of these crooked politicians are heeeeaaavily invested in the various private healthcare companies.
I am not a particularly religious person, but I know this to be true: You can’t serve two masters.
I don't think it's a pride thing as much as it is a money thing.
I recall they had to drop the public option after Ted Kennedy died and they no longer had a supermajority in the Senate. To get around a Republican filibuster, they had to rely on a less than ideal version of the bill through the reconciliation process
This is the constant Democratic Party refrain. We sure wish we could have done {insert good thing} but when the iron was hot, by golly, we just couldn’t find our hammer.
Then the iron got cold so we had to, shucks, pass a version of the bill that was much more attractive to our donors and screw over the voters.
Golly gee willickers, what rotten luck.
Meanwhile the GOP with the slimmest majority and 3 turncoat Dems. “Time to rewrite the tax code, no need to type it up frank just scribble it in the margin, we will figure out how many billions to give the wealthy once it’s passed”
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People do remember that we ended up with a more conservative system than his Republican opponent wanted, right?
Dems defending the ACA and refusing to keep working on healthcare is a large reason why trump won.
Not to even get into how it's been almost 20 years and the "incremental improvements" that dem ACA detractors never happened, they never even worked towards them...
Every time an elected moderate/neolineral speaks, they're lying to someone. If they were honest they'd never get elected, at least not with a D next to their name
I'm more excited that Obama joined BlueSky but yes we're long overdue for actual universal healthcare legislation. Like 15 years overdue.
The ACA was the best that could be done at the time, but it is a steaming turd and needs to be replaced with Universal Healthcare.
IIRC, at the time Dems had the majority and still the ACA got bastardized before the pubes would let it pass. Personally, I’d consider it a failure.
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the umpteenth bill to repeal it was introduced on jan 3rd but Luigi happened, ao I think they decided to put it on the backburner.
I disagree. Democrats had the presidency, the house and the senate (filibuster proof). They chose a republican friendly solution that was just a bandaid on a broken system.
All it did was piss off republicans and give them a rallying point while doing nothing to encourage democrats to vote.
They should have had the balls to create a system that actually fixed the problems, but they didn’t.
They only had a filibuster-proof senate counting the independent Joe Lieberman who caucused with democrats. Lieberman (and a few other dems tbh) wouldn’t support a single payer system, so the ACA was the best they could do.
There were like one or two very conservative Dems who derailed the single payer option when they had the filibuster proof majority. The main problem is not getting a solid party wide understanding of the goals they are aiming for ahead of the chances to do something about it.
Joe Lieberman said no to single payer... He is the one who blocked it from happening because his state had some insurance companies.
But bootlickers running around frothing their their mouth how this is the best republicans would permit us to have 🤡
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you mean like the suddenly 10 conservative democrats who just happen to vote to allow trump to continue dismantling the government? including the democratic leader in the senate schumer? stop excusing their lack of accomplishments on a few bad applies. the bulk of the party is rotten.
It wouldnt have mattered if they had 90 members in the senate and 90% of the house they'd find the votes to prevent anything that helps the working class.
Democrats played controlled opposition and the normie still dont see it.
God I hate the term normies. It’s such a chronically online term. And it’s absolutely not normal to be so fucking stupid as to not realize that the democrats are controlled opposition. Every other country in the world can see it.
You are correct on both counts
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America: The best we can do is a steaming turd