centrist vs progressive

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  • September 26, 2019 at 8:15 pm #105731
    wv
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    September 26, 2019 at 9:06 pm #105741
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    Medicare for all definitely covers catastrophic. If Pelosi said that, she should be ashamed of herself. And Maher is an idiot for repeating it.

    Sanders actually makes Medicare waaaaay better. His plan all but eliminates out of pocket costs, which Medicare currently has, because lobbyists managed to privatize it to some degree. Sanders gets rid of the privatization.

    The host makes the point I’ve been trying to make with Dems for a long, long time. The GOP wins elections with extremist positions that the country hates. Its agenda is never “popular.” The nation is never “with” its agenda. But it wins elections anyway. Primarily, because it’s excellent at sales, marketing and fearmongering. It’s excellent at stirring up the lizard brain in Americans.

    Logically, if the GOP can win elections with a very UNpopular agenda, the Dems don’t need to constantly rush to the center or further right. They actually have popular policies they could run on if they chose to, and win handily, if they wanted to. And that includes the stuff pushed by the Squad, whom I love.

    Yeah. Maher’s lost.

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