@gjohnsit

Only people like it and they don’t count.

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Since the coronavirus crisis began in earnest—since schools and businesses were shuttered across the nation, and sports seasons and concert tours and public events were canceled, and wildcat strikes took place, and major hospitals faced dire equipment shortages, and thousands began to sicken and die, and 10 million people became unemployed in two weeks—not a single major politician has stood up and said, “In light of all this, I now support Medicare For All.” Not a single Republican, of course. But also not a single prominent Democrat. On the contrary, the likely Democratic presidential nominee stood up two days ago and affirmed that he is still opposed to Medicare For All, because “it will not solve” this crisis “at all.” As horrific, unprecedented unemployment figures were released today, the most that Joe Biden could muster was a statement calling for open enrollment in Obamacare.

Americans, with no jobs and no money and the very real threat of imminent death, should be legally permitted to purchase bad and inadequate private health insurance that they cannot afford. That is the position of the party that represents the progressive side of American politics. The other party is just trying to source enough body bags.

@UntimelyRippd

will age out of my cadillac insurance in 7 weeks.

And then what?

@mimi  
and neoliberal globalizing ideology, because — what, NATO? And, the Holocaust? And, free markets?

because those media people (TV) is a bunch of rich dumbfucks who couldn't care less. They have enough money to pay whatever there is to pay.

I have never seen a country that is that cruel to its own people.

@Pricknick that literally makes no difference in electoral politics at the national level (black Americans who would view any attempt at repealing something Obama did as a slight against the first black POTUS), and to his donor base (wealthy individuals who prefer to status quo in basically everything).

There are plenty of black Americans who don't think Obamacare is worth keeping if it can be replaced with something better (which isn't all that hard), but they trend younger and aren't in Biden's demographic anyway.

"I understand the appeal of Medicare for All," Biden said in a video posted Monday morning. "But folks supporting it should be clear that it means getting rid of Obamacare. And I'm not for that."

@polkageist mildly I think our owners want violence, as Hedges always says, they're ready for that. More than ready, they plan on it. Unfortunately they themselves won't be the victims of it either.

With our politicians acting as they are now, this part of John Kennedy's 1962 speech comes to mind:

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."