Nearly 50% of general population (more than 50% of Dems) believe that they will get to keep their own current insurance (e.g., employer subsidized). Make it clear that will not be the case under single payer, and watch its support dwindle to true believers. Life is just not this simple.
"...the Democrats are no more than a False Left. Pretending to represent a populist party, they still serve the same 0.1% Masters. Otherwise, why are several different types of universal healthcare off the table when it has so much broad appeal right now?..."
Full stop. It's willfully ignorant (note - look up fillibuster and Senate ACA history 2008-10) purist like you, Ian, that help get the Orange Menace elected. Are you enjoying your man in the White House now? If not, get over Ralph Nadering before 2020 or suffer another 4 years of increasing tyranny.
Still strains of beating that dead horse of false equivalence of the Dem Establishment being little better than what's to actually come under complete GOP rule. It's obviously going to take a little more time for some for the full new reality to fully take hold, but no doubt, eventually it's going to grab you by the gonads. Best of luck to you.
A fair discussion of the landscape, but the notion that Americans avoid linking terrorist actions to their own foreign policies is silly. The term "blowback" originated with the American intel community. Over the last 30 years, small fortunes have been made by authors, screenwriters and pundits flogging the connections; the beginning of the end of Clinton's campaign began with a certain US ambassador's death in Benghazi. The American ease of the connection of Russia's ambassador's assassination to that nation's policy comes from years of experiencing it; the relative lack of US media coverage comes from both another blowback for Germans occurring at the same time and from the heighten concern that the US may have elected their own Tsar Putin in the form of Trump.
Nearly 50% of general population (more than 50% of Dems) believe that they will get to keep their own current insurance (e.g., employer subsidized). Make it clear that will not be the case under single payer, and watch its support dwindle to true believers. Life is just not this simple.
"...the Democrats are no more than a False Left. Pretending to represent a populist party, they still serve the same 0.1% Masters. Otherwise, why are several different types of universal healthcare off the table when it has so much broad appeal right now?..."
Full stop. It's willfully ignorant (note - look up fillibuster and Senate ACA history 2008-10) purist like you, Ian, that help get the Orange Menace elected. Are you enjoying your man in the White House now? If not, get over Ralph Nadering before 2020 or suffer another 4 years of increasing tyranny.
And Trump will put in exactly who as his replacement? Rudy Guiliani? David Duke? Putin's right hand intel man?
Stop and think.
Still strains of beating that dead horse of false equivalence of the Dem Establishment being little better than what's to actually come under complete GOP rule. It's obviously going to take a little more time for some for the full new reality to fully take hold, but no doubt, eventually it's going to grab you by the gonads. Best of luck to you.
A fair discussion of the landscape, but the notion that Americans avoid linking terrorist actions to their own foreign policies is silly. The term "blowback" originated with the American intel community. Over the last 30 years, small fortunes have been made by authors, screenwriters and pundits flogging the connections; the beginning of the end of Clinton's campaign began with a certain US ambassador's death in Benghazi. The American ease of the connection of Russia's ambassador's assassination to that nation's policy comes from years of experiencing it; the relative lack of US media coverage comes from both another blowback for Germans occurring at the same time and from the heighten concern that the US may have elected their own Tsar Putin in the form of Trump.