Contrast that with the Donna Brazile tweet from the Nancy Pelosi thread about how Pelosi isn’t going anywhere and doesn’t care what you think. And Schumer fast tracking Trump’s judges. And on and on.

The Dems know damn well who they are. They haven’t rediscovered it but they reconfirm it everyday.

Why?
I break bread with my family and not with voters.
So, we should not fall for right-wing propaganda and we should not fall for left-wing propaganda and therefore we fall for both sides propaganda?
I do not get the title of your comment.

IS NATIONALIZATION AN ANSWER TO CLIMATE CHANGE?

In particular, Labour hopes to renationalize private rail companies; “transition to a publicly owned, decentralised energy system”; create a regional network of publicly owned water companies; and reverse the privatization of the Royal Mail — the now profit-driven British equivalent of the U.S. Postal Service — as soon as possible. -snip

“We’ve gone through, now, 40 years in which economic policymaking and politics generally have been dominated by neoliberalism and neoliberal ideology, and that has argued that the private sector — the market — can always provide the optimum solution to any problem we face,” Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, Corbyn’s second-in-command, told The Intercept. “We’ve had that experiment now for 40 years, and it’s failed dramatically,” he said, noting how privatization has tended to lead to poorer services and higher costs for consumers.

"And because you voted Republican, you’re not stupid, you’re not different, you’re not worthless, you know? I could break bread with anybody who voted for Trump. We could find some common ground to love each other.”

I get so tired of reading insults of the regular (not wealthy) repubs. They are in the same jam that we are.

Socialism is government owning the means of production, not capitalism alleviated by some government-funded or government-subsidized programs. The latter is what we have today. If single payer became a reality tomorrow, we would still have capitalism mitigated by some government-funded or government-subsidized programs. If we were looking for hospitals (and factories and media, etc.) owned and operated by government, that would be socialism.

Since the 1800s, when socialists were prominent in labor movements in the US and elsewhere, our government, aided by mass media, spent many years and untold dollars instilling in Americans fear and revulsion of communism and socialism. The "Korean Police Action" and "Vietnam Era," among others conflicts, were fought to "protect" us and the rest of the "free world" from the spread of communism. IMO, the New Deal and the Great Society were also part of that effort. Why try to push back against all that when single payer is not even socialism, but only capitalism mitigated by a handful of publicly-funded or publicly-subsidized programs?

In the minds of Americans, socialism and communism are both associated only with disastrous dictatorships. However, countries that are capitalist, but have successful government-funded or government-subsidized programs are understood by Americans to be free societies. In fact, the US is one of the nations that has successful government-funded or government-subsidized programs, like highways, traffic lights, fire departments, police departments, public parks, public schools, etc., and, of course, OASDI and Medicare. Others are the Scandinavian nations, of which Bernie Sanders speaks often and which are among the happiest nations in the world (unlike the US).

BTW, in other contexts, Jim Carrey has mentioned that his family lived in a car for a time. Given that, it is even more impressive that they were able to access good health care without waiting. Then again, the crappy people who begrudge poor people food, shelter and health care, even life itself, are not impressed by such things.