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Capitalism is the best marketing socialism has ever had.
This is why I want america to be screwed up completely. So Americans wake up and realize what theyve been enforcing on global south for decades.
But 16 years ago, democrats gave us watered-down heritage foundation health policy and haven't done shit since! Gen Z are clearly a bunch of ingrates.
If I recall correctly, they didn't have enough votes for single-payer and passed the compromise that they could get done .
Single payer was never on the table, (and if centrists have their way it never will be) and the public option was a bill of goods designed to be jettisoned from the outset.
They had a supermajority. Like always, they find enough no votes.
The original plan for ACA had a single-payer option.
The compromised ACA itself passed the house only by a couple votes. The party is not a monolith and had a number of moderates that opposed single-payer.
The original plan for ACA had a single-payer option.
Like hell it did.
The compromised ACA
The version they always intended to pass.
The party is not a monolith
They expect the voters to vote as a bloc but won't do so themselves.
and had a number of moderates that opposed single-payer.
No matter how big a majority democrats have, they always find just enough no votes.
It's Manchin, straight up. And then Ted Kennedy died and they lost the supermajority and had to pass what the Senate had already voted on because anything different would be filibustered.
It was lieberman and nelson. manchin hadn't rotated in yet.
You're right, and let's not forget the Franken recount that lasted until June. So a very brief window to get stuff done.
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It still baffles me how some Americans will fight against universal healthcare, like ??? Do you WANT to be put in debt cuz you had an easily-treatable illness??? I don't get it, honestly
My mom had a spinal fusion in the 90s which she got in debt for.
About 15 years ago my lung spontaneously collapsed. Several surgeries later, the bill was $315,000. I was on Obamacare because of the mandate, thank god. I paid $19.
My mom found out and told me I "deserved to go bankrupt" because people like her had struggled for so long with their medical bills.
I don't speak to her anymore
Propaganda sold to us at an early age.
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I have some good news for the Gen Zers. America is capitalism with a socialism backbone. Things like social securit, fire departments, national parks, roads, schools, electricity, water, police, jails, courts, unemployment, banking(FDIC), CDC, military, space programs, and so much more are paid by your taxes and redistributed wealth just like socialism.
The problem is when money mixes with politics from things like Citizens United, you start seeing policies shifting away from socialism to capitalism.
This can all be reversed once we remove all money from politics.
Some of those things could be considered socialized, but they do not make our government socialist. Socialized welfare exists under socialism but that's not what socialism is. Socialism is worker ownership of the means of production. You could even nationalize industries, but without unions, syndicates, or cooperatives collectively making the decisions it's really only state capitalism.
Yes, absolutely. I'm trying to explain it in layman's terms without going through what exactly is socialism.
My point is that we need to actually inform people what Citizens United has done to our society. Corporations are NOT people and does not deserve the protections that people get.
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