I think if I were American I would live in a constant state of near fatal embarrassment about healthcare in the country. How does your federal government have among the highest per-capita spending on healthcare without providing healthcare to the majority of citizens and while infant morality rises? How could they screw this up, indeed.
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It is embarrassing to watch our society’s monstrous failure there, but it’s such a cruel thing causing needless suffering and harm to the poor and needy out of corporate greed that it’s more infuriating. Once you have decent insurance there’s also the existential dread over keeping employment for fear of illness or injury. If you don’t have a job, there’s just existential dread of illness or injury. Worse, medical bills are the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US even for the insured. It’s a permanent angst multiplier for pretty much everyone but the wealthiest. Having lived in Canada and having experienced the healthcare system there firsthand, it’s also aggravating to see so many fellow citizens buy the corporate propaganda hook line and sinker. But fellow Americans being so clueless and stubborn in their ignorance that reinforces real human suffering are the biggest source of embarrassment (the mass-scale persistent humiliating willful ignorance isn’t just over healthcare, of course).
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If we only had tort reform, you see…
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You left out the fear of chronic or extended illness losing you the job, and your (and your family’s) insurance with it.
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Maybe it’s enough to vote for her when she is running against a rotten pumpkin (I know I did), but to ignore the other flaws in her message? 99.999% wouldn’t be enough! Here are just a few of her policies I disagree(d) with, and they’re big ones: the death penalty, drug laws, and the military. If she, or anyone else on the left side of the isle, runs with that platform I will criticize it. Why? Because it does not represent the leftist ideals that brought me to the Democratic party, but if I have to vote for that platform to prevent Fuckface Von Clownstick from winning I will. Are you saying we can’t criticise the party we are part of? If so, thats idiotic at best, and if not then I clearly don’t understand the issue here.
In the Democratic primary I voted for Bernie, but I criticised parts of his platform as well, I didn’t really agree with him on certain aspects of gun control and his response at first to groups like BLM was menial at best. The only way I’ll ever agree with a political platform entirely is by putting my own name on the ballot, and thats fine! That’s how politics works in a Republic pretending to be a Democracy, it’s about refinement not perfection. I wanted (and still do) to move the party more to the left, but Bernie didn’t win the primary and so it didn’t work. Despite this, the Dem platform was still much more consistent with my values than any of the others in the running. So I voted for Clinton. This is basic politics. To me it feels like you’re creating a issue where there isn’t one.
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Now go take a look at the T4 bacteriophage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterobacteria_phage_T4
They can survive hard vacuum, too.
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The Democratic Party backroom chose Hillary, and all the other possible candidates stepped aside. Bernie was like the lovable but weird uncle that didn’t get the message that it was her turn.
Pick a card, any card. No, THAT ONE!
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That’s Republican party talking points, not the views of the Democratic party itself.
What has changed is the size and population of the country (many states have more citizens now than in the entire country during its first 100 years). This means we can’t operate like a ma-&-pa store anymore. There are, necessarily, more levels of management in a Fortune 500 company. That’s just reality.
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And voting members of the party chose her.
Not me. I voted for the 74-year-old Jewish atheist Social Democrat.
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As did I, but we weren’t enough!
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A lot of people don’t realize that the intense bureaucracy of government isn’t because government it’s because size of organization.
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Well obviously they want to drown it in the bathtub, because something of its size just runs itself with no intervention!
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