What? But I love going into debt and/or dying because I can't afford cancer treatments!
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Realistically, if we're ever going to get real healthcare reform, it will have to come from a Republican. Trump probably isn't the man to do it, but Republicans at this time in history are the party of change. Democrats don't support any change. I wonder at this point if people with progressive issues on healthcare should start running as Republicans.
We got healthcare reform (nowhere near enough but we got some) under Obama, so I think it would have been possible under Harris as well.
- Mainstream news: "Murder will not lead to any change"
- Also mainstream news: "Let's suddenly talk more about that problem in one week than we've ever talked about it in the past 20 years"
violence never solved anything
1 dead CEO later
why can't I hold all these solutions?
And many of them voted for the guy who said he had "concepts of a plan" to maybe fix it, if it can be done better. So them being unhappy about it doesn't mean much when we are about to get a government that is actively hostile to improving any kind of health care for anyone ever.
Trump is objectively worse than Kamala. But don't fool yourself. There is no real difference between the two on healthcare. Neither had any real plans to make any real reform. Biden has a trifecta, and he didn't do shit. Kamala explicitly ran as Biden 2.0.
You should add to it that he claimed he will have a plan within a week or so, for the past 8 years, while antivax RFK Jr. will be health minister next month.
If you don't like it, why vote to empower the rich and mega corps at the cost of the other 99% of the population?
Yeah, Dems really have a lot of work to do to earn back the trust of most Americans.
Literally no one I know believes anything they say (or I say about them) or at best they'll think it's all performative (which they're mostly right about). Most folks just don't really care about news/politics and live normal American lives and feel the struggle. It's mind blowing to me that our messaging was about how great the economy is and how much better is. Literal insane shit to most working class people.
Instead of saying the economy is great, they should use another word for what they mean, which is specifically like the rate of inflation/cost of very specific things or like a very specific unemployment rate. Whereas when regular people hear economy, they think of more abstract things like money in their pocket/savings, the cost of groceries, their ability to plan for the future based on stable finances, or even the increasing APR on the credit cards they owe (something we choose to ignore but many struggle with) - none of that shit is great, it's literally worse than ever. lol
I feel like they would have fared better if they went all in on the "corporations are gouging consumers" line and not try to convince people with GDP figures or the unemployment rate.
What??? Why???
The sky is blue and water is wet rank beside this revelation.
I would never have guessed!