This is actually sad

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    You should give power to people who care about you!

    That only leaves the Green Party, though.

    And yeah, we learned that lesson with Obama’s presidency. The man had a supermajority for a while and all he did was make fascism worse and health care more expensive.

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      Mind-blowing how people have forgotten the time before the ACA, which limited insurer excess profit and forbid denial due to pre-existing conditions

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          It for sure sucks now! Lieberman killed the public option and things have only gotten worse since then as we haven’t taken on the usury of insurance, PE hospitals, and pharma, but the ACA was a step in the right direction that’s been continuously sabotaged ever since it was implemented

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            but the ACA was a step in the right direction

            The ACA was a turd with some rhetorical polish. That’s it, and anyone seeking health care in this country knows it.

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                Pretty lazy response.

                I’m not a Donald supporter. I’m just also unwilling to pretend that a regressive health care system is a good thing because it came from the Blue MAGA instead of the Red MAGA, especially considering Obama could have (and should have) done better. .

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                  I’m not a Donald supporter.

                  You’re every bit as intelligent as one. You’re Blue MAGA, you fucking idiot.

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                    I’m voting blue regardless, and I hope that the person you’re responding to probably will as well. I liked Obama’s approach, his demeanor, but not everything that he did. Despite that, I voted for him twice.

                    MAGA, pretty famously now, has no principles. They require loyalty to trump despite any policy flip flops.

                    His not being a fan of something Obama did because he thinks Obama should have known and done better is somehow following a MAGA playbook?

                    I know where you’re coming from. I’m terrified that Putin’s goon squad will somehow wreck any chance of recovery in November. But I doubt I’ll stop being critical of the Democratic leadership. Instead of having the approach “view blue despite all these internal party issues” we should be trying “vote blue and get involved to help us fix these issues.”

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                  Lol, you sure have a lot of opinions. What part about it is ‘lazy’?

                  Edit: What is your plan? Enlighten us wise one.

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        All of those things still exist now, provided you can’t afford to be price gouged, which is the vast majority of Americans.

        And Obama could have given us a truly universal system