I know the ACA is not universal healthcare, but it was an improvement. Also we were one vote away from a single payer option, but then Joe Lieberman threatened to kill the whole bill over that one provision.
You’ll always be one vote away, any time any real change is possible, like a public option, enough people will swap sides. Been happening obviously since the blue dog Dems in the Clinton years. Sinema, Manchin… Predictable.
And if you recall passing the (very limited) ACA was political suicide for the party. Voters love the law 10yrs on but they did not like it then. 2010 was a bloodbath. Any party that decide to try and ram all that shit through would be out of power and the shit would be repealed in an instant.
You don’t need better political parties, you need better neighbors. The people are the reason this country fails. Politicians just deliver the failure that we ask them for.
Ah yes. The things dems can unilaterally provide but chosen not to! Darn those democrats!
The things dems claimed they would unilaterly provide when they had majority but didn’t because they are also corporate shills
Thanks Obama
I know the ACA is not universal healthcare, but it was an improvement. Also we were one vote away from a single payer option, but then Joe Lieberman threatened to kill the whole bill over that one provision.
You’ll always be one vote away, any time any real change is possible, like a public option, enough people will swap sides. Been happening obviously since the blue dog Dems in the Clinton years. Sinema, Manchin… Predictable.
And if you recall passing the (very limited) ACA was political suicide for the party. Voters love the law 10yrs on but they did not like it then. 2010 was a bloodbath. Any party that decide to try and ram all that shit through would be out of power and the shit would be repealed in an instant.
You don’t need better political parties, you need better neighbors. The people are the reason this country fails. Politicians just deliver the failure that we ask them for.
They did not claim they could unilaterally do it nor was there ever a filibuster-proof majority who wanted any of these things.