• PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    Perhaps the dems should ask themselves why mandatory purchasing of insurance was the pinnacle of their accomplishment in the last 40 years and attempt to examine that.

    But sure fully embracing racial taxonomy and spending as much time as possible classifying people based on skin-tone, facial features, phenotypes, skull shape and literally anything besides class might work too. What would I know, I’m not a PMC employed by the DNC.

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      8 days ago

      Perhaps the dems should ask themselves why mandatory purchasing of insurance was the pinnacle of their accomplishment in the last 40 years and attempt to examine that.

      It was not. Getting health insurance for an additional 30 million Americans was.

      But sure fully embracing racial taxonomy and spending as much time as possible classifying people based on skin-tone, facial features, phenotypes, skull shape and literally anything besides class might work too.

      Nope. That is just some idiot media pundit nonsense. Not so be taken seriously.

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        8 days ago

        It was not. Getting health insurance for an additional 30 million Americans was.

        Health insurance is not healthcare, it doesn’t mandate care, and there is basically no relation what-so-ever between having health insurance and getting healthcare.

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          there is basically no relation what-so-ever between having health insurance and getting healthcare.

          This is 100% false.

          it doesn’t mandate care

          Because of Republican opposition. The one and only way to get that is for the GOP to lose elections repeatedly.

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    11 days ago

    Why are Collins and other Republicans being so craven? Simple: The evidence has been clear for decades for anyone who cared to look. From a quantitative standpoint, championing white nationalism in this country has always been good politics.

    This is disgusting, and the suggestion is a result of decades of Democratic disengagement and disenfranchisement. There are also far more conservatives to woo than far-left third-party voters.

    If Republicans are voting while Democrats abstain and vote third-party, candidates will inevitably move right to capture more of the active voters.

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    8 days ago

    Most of them are with Trump, and that’s not going to change

    This article is completely wrong. Why would white people be okay with Convicted Felon and Sex Offender Treason Trump destroying the democracy that white people created? If Hillary Clinton had had a few grisly bikers mixed into the Muslim women behind her in crowds she would have beat Treason Trump in 2016. Dems need to take a lesson from Bernie Sanders and focus on things that all Americans want to see. Rejecting the majority would be the dumbest idea ever.