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All Cindy High-Prices had to do was return that little blue piece of paper and she’d probably still have a job this evening.
Hate to see it.
The internecine policy squabbles just feel so petty and insignificant when the state where they murdered Medgar Evers and Emmett Till just sent a black native son to represent it in the U.S. Senate.
My god.
If you’re in downtown Denver and you just heard someone yell OH MY GOD JUST FUCKING CALL IT ALREADY then sorry 🤭
Democrats want universal health care. Period. I fundamentally believe we can get there soon. It starts by accepting we’re all on the same page here.
And then we plot.
People are clearly hungry for a Leader of the Opposition style figure and I get that impulse.
But the job of the leader in each legislative chamber here in the U.S. isn’t to articulate a vision for the party.
It’s to keep each respective caucus together and count votes. Dassit.
We can and should have a healthy debate about universal health care on the Democratic side but all parties are going to need to be straightforward about the political and policy tradeoffs.
There is simply not a political mandate for the abolition of private insurance as we know it in this country, and single-payer proponents simply must stop behaving as if there is.
