Agree, though we've had so many wake up calls lately...none seem to land.
Yep. I'll care when the politicians actually do something besides make speeches. Not that I'm expecting anything at all from the Democrats, they're too busy trying to decide which Republican policy they want to water down and implement next.
Too many people still chasing the American Dream, scared to death of being woke.
To paraphrase George Carlin: they call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
It should be rebranded the American Delusion.
I mean, it’s been referred to as the American Nightmare for some time now.
They woke up... just to fall asleep again.
Country needs to stop hitting the fuckin' snooze button.
Progressive lawmakers view the online praise for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as a sign of deep public frustration with the U.S. healthcare system.
It’s not just the healthcare system
Agreed, and also it's not just "frustration". Their choice of words is a sugar coating.
At risk of going off topic, it wouldn’t matter of Bernie or AOC or someone to the left of them had run for every open position.
The Democrat’s problem was campaigning on a high horse like its 1950, instead of seeding propaganda in social media. It’s the delivery, not the message, and they are going to keep losing until we get a “liberal Trump” shameless enough to break that mould.
The wake-up call for me was watching post election interviews of ostensibly educated college students from fairly liberal campuses… and now, there is no govt incentive to reign that in.
It's both the delivery and the message. Saying it's only the delivery implies anyone was every going to vote for the Democrats' "everything is fine" position when everything is decidedly not fine.
I actually kinda feel that someone like Bernie may have had enough youth appeal to have a somewhat organic version of that happen. During the 2016 primaries, a decent amount of memes and online talk were spawned by him/his campaign.
Definitely agree that delivery is extremely important though, campaigning on helping workers while appearing elite and out of touch just makes people consider you a liar or to be looking down at people.
The Dems would rather lose than concede to Progressive populist ideals.
What exactly are you basing this on? Harris ran a terrible campaign with the usual Democratic half-measure policy proposals and lost. That should hardly be a surprise. There is no evidence to say that a populist Democrat like Bernie or AOC couldn't win.
What if Harris had made the whole campaign into a referendum on the broken healthcare system? It turns out that that's where the Republican voters she was trying to woo were hiding all along.
Is it though? Cause a lot of progressives vote like they are asleep. (I say this as a progressive mind you...)
Progressives are the most politically engaged segment in the US, even ahead of evangelicals. Progressives are most likely to vote, to donate, and to volunteer for campaigns. This is true despite the fact that Democrats never give them much to vote for.
Do you mean "Progressives" or "progressives." It's like saying "Democrat" or "democratic." There's a stance and then there's boots on the ground, populist minded, human focused ideology.
When any movement's name is coopted by its uppercase, it's effectively diminished.
Lies. This is just “give them news to calm them down” keep deposing!
Of course they are. They have been! And then they go out and vote someone in who’s going to enrich these healthcare executives and shareholders like never before.
The line between voter sentiment and candidates/policy is completely busted, twisted by bubbles and feeds, and it’s going to get exponentially worse now. So I hate to sound cynical, but I don’t see what good this sentiment does unless these candidates get in the dirt and play the propaganda game.
We need to stop the needless CEO killings by switching to universal healthcare! Think of all the CEO lives we could save by doing this!
I’ve lost all faith in the media and even stories like this. It feels like controlled opposition.
Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t kill Kennedy, and the new patsy didn’t kill the asshole CEO who murdered grandmas and grandpas and made people’s lives a living hell by denying claims with AI.
They’ll release a mountain of evidence against him and find every way to discredit this “suspect” in public opinion. They’ll silence him and discredit him with their bully pulpit. That’s what they do. Meanwhile, the available evidence suggests strongly that he didn’t do it. Wrong guy.
If they were just trying to pin it on someone, I doubt they would pick a child of the autocracy tech-bro. It would be some poor city kid who could only afford a public defender.
Unhinged
It’s nothing unless it happens directly to them, meaning the CEOs/wealthy. One death is a one-off. They’ll review or “enhance” their corporate security procedures which will consist of: telling already abused and overworked front line workers to watch some corporate security video and who to report suspicious people to. Tell middle managers to keep an eye on employees for suspicious behavior. Upper management will create the plan and worry unnecessarily it might be them targeted because they’re this close to actually being important. And the C-suite might actually get an occasional bodyguard, guard at home, or block access to the c-suite unless approved by said guard. Maybe. Most of them won’t GAF except a minor twinge of worry washed away by their next $75 glass of fine wine at a Michelin starred restaurant.
Unless lawmakers get their heads out of their asses and do something useful, the only change that will come from this "wake-up call" is that companies will try to obfuscate their executive roster and those executives will travel with a security detail paid for by denying more insurance claims.
denying more insurance claims
You say that like that wasn't their top priority the day before the shooting.
I don't mean to antagonize, but I dislike even passive implications that they've shown us any quarter or will stop being nice now.
They were always for maximum murder for maximum profit. At no point does anyone in charge go "well if they've paid their premiums for decades and never used their plan at all, let them have the surgery" if they have any technicality to prevent it.
No amount of Good boy/girl reverence towards them has or will result in anything positive for their customers/marks.
That's bad for business. They never used kid gloves, so they have nothing to take off. There was 0 good faith being exercised between private health insurers and their customers on December 3rd.
If anything, what happened helped a few BlueCross patients not be billed tens of thousands for anasthesia for their approved surgeries after the fact, at least for a few months until they institute it anyway if this moment passes without becoming a movement. Unlike goodwill, they do seem to respond to fear.
If only a bunch of people hadn't stayed home a month ago.
That's what happens when you're presented with a candidate who is "not as bad as the other side's pick."
Democrats keep fucking themselves.
Unfortunately, nothing will ever happen. Especially since Republicans have no interest in universal healthcare and hold every position of power now. It's all about money.
Wake up, grab your brush and put a little makeup
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