So it looks like the Bernie contingent wants to repeat the fetterman mistake.

It was 1993 so I don't remember all the details but it was a a payroll tax, similar to Medicare I believe.

Yeah, Obamacare seemed designed to progress to a system similar to Germany or Japan with multiple pairs from State payers to unions, etc.

I don't know of any major advocacy organization working for a nationalized Health delivery system only for nationalized Health payments.

Single-payer works where it exists just as multi-payer works where it exists. We have the worst health care funding system of any developed country and will until we have a nationalized payment structure. No need to nationalize care, just payments, but I am agnostic as to single or multi-payer

She was on several of the planning calls and was great at leading meetings, managing time, etc. I saw why some on the HSE drafting committee complained about her, but I loved that she did not indulge people's time-wasting reminiscences.

McDermott's bill was excellent and had help in drafting from Families USA and other health care advocacy groups but Hillary's Health Security had all the momentum. We all came to support Hillary's bill in the end and I helped organize the kickoff rally for Health Security Express in Portland.

Toodle-oo

But bottom line, we are all more disappointed by those most like us than by those from whom we expect the worst.

It was parties, receptions, gym time, and so on with other politicians who cared about health policy and with lobbyists, "experts," and technocrats that deradicalized Wyden, leading him to oppose the single-payer option rather than fight for single-payer being the main reform, not just an option.

all the research by Princeton's Paul Starr and Wyden's own editorial in the NYTimes. He didn't persuade me, but I saw he was a true believer. That's the problem with politicians. They socialize with politicians. Propinquity, not bribery, is the great homogenizer of political passion and fire.

All in all, Wyden is a good senator and my vote for him is a vote for a good man, not the lesser or two evils. But still, when he makes me mad, he makes me really mad. And he tried to persuade me, too. He cornered me at Lloyd Center and spent 45 minutes talking to me about "managed care" and

So, Wyden's defection hurt. But if you don't expect decency of someone, their indecency is no surprise and doesn't hurt (I mean, it hurts the country, but has no personal burn to it.) The lack of anger from the bro contingent is no surprise. Like me, they don't expect Republicans to do good things.

Here's the thing. The disappointment of those who are closest to you politically burns far hotter than the expected shitty votes of people you never expect to do right at all ever. That's why the "extreme" left always rip on Democrats and never have a bad word to say about Republicans.

When he circulated a "Dear Colleague" letter soliciting support to exclude the single-payer option from the bill, my head about exploded. Wyden had been ED of the Gray Panthers and a big single-payer proponent. He went to Congress to pass single-payer. Supposedly.

Probably no politician has pissed me off so often as Ron Wyden, particularly when I was working to support Jim McDermott's single-payer bill in 1993. Wyden was ardently promoting managed care & Hillary's Health Security Act which became the only rodeo in town. But he opposed the single-payer option

And yet the far right succeeded by doing the opposite.

Wage inequality narrowed during Biden administration.

That is false. Income inequality narrowed under Biden. He signed an order barring discrimination against gay and trans students, restored medical care, and more. If he had not, then Trump would not have directed HHS and other agencies to reverse Biden's executive order.

This is why primaries are so damn important. If we want the party to run better candidates, we need to be supporting them in the spring, not just lamenting their absence in November.

I urge you to look at the success of fascists in taking over the GOP. They won by voting GOP every time, even for W who was open to immigration. Abstainers never gain influence and extortion does not work. Infiltration and being a reliable bloc works. Do you want to feel right or do right?

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The Southern Poverty Law Center was not indicted for "funding the KKK."

The indictment alleges they paid informants who had infiltrated multiple hate groups without disclosing the program to donors, constituting false statements, and wire fraud and money laundering for the undisclosed payments.

They just blatatly lie and the legacy MSM lets them get away with it at the podium. Facts were already known. He could've EASILY been challenged on it.

But does it? I mean whether it does or does not will depend upon the decision by the corrupt Supreme Court who cannot be trusted to be consistent or honest or anything but partisan.

King of Corruption
Steals OUR money
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Who could have seen it coming?
Oh wait …
#pinks
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Smörgåstorta

What I'm leaning toward.

Home from oncologist appt, chatted with a neighbor. I mentioned my visit & mastectomy vs. lumpectomy decision. Out of nowhere, "I hope you don't get mastectomy, and please don't be offended, but I want to suck your breasts."

My reply, "Dude, that ain't gonna happen."

Interior: why are men?

Fisherman. We're blowing up fishing boats.