Such as? Buying our own lobbyist and funding campaigns? It wouldn’t be them making a stink at first, but the healthcare and pharma industries wonder in where their customers went.
The system is broken, there is no fixing it. The ACA, as flawed as it was, was the best you can expect from private insurance. And they took all that new customer money to lobby against the same customers interest.
I think the entire economy should be boycotted for change, but this is a high priority start. School teaches failing to act against DeVos don’t realize they lost everything by not doing so. Yet.
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Such as? Buying our own lobbyist and funding campaigns?
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Voting would be a good start.
Promoting voting as a good way to enact change is another.
Both of those things took a big hit last year. If we’re going to have people in office who can change things, Americans who want change are going to have to be a whole lot less jaded about their vote mattering at all.
Well, I outright refuse to buy an product other than undergarments and food while these Jokers are in control. This started a day after the election. I am even wary of at eating at a local ethnic restaurant cause I don’t know who’s really profiting off it. I don’t agree to the terms of any of it and I am not about to buy a product were some secret republican investor is making all the profit.
But healthcare is easy, its a tangible concrete goal.
This argument is a lot like those that were buying from slaveowners so the slaves could be fed. The ones that only tried to purchase from the kind slave owners were the ones that enabled it, putting s kind face to it.
That’s not my solution. I don’t control what my healthcare provider does with its profits. But I’m not going to die in ten years for my ideals by forgoing my coverage and going without my medication. Your proposal is completely impractical. You can’t get any traction to make it happen so proposing it is proposing suicide. Anyone who attempts your solution is putting themselves and their families at risk. It’s probably only a less-dangerous idea for people in their 20s who don’t live dangerously, were fortunate to have good genes and not prone to disease, and even then I wouldn’t recommend it if you have the ability to get coverage.
You don’t know me or my history. I went for years without medical coverage or subpar medical coverage that I didn’t use because I couldn’t afford my deductibles. It already has affected me. I worked full time while putting myself through school and taking out student loans to get a degree to get a job that actually provides decent healthcare coverage and a living wage with which I support my family.
The current system isn’t ideal. It’s not the way I’d do it if I had any real power. As I already said, I support a single payer system. But you’re attacking the wrong people.
And quoting MLK Jr. speaking on an unrelated topic with solutions to a very different problem is a real bullshit approach. But at least you have your self-righteousness.
To give up my healthcare coverage as a symbolic (and powerless, unnoticeable gesture) is the equivalent of a white man in the 60s giving up food and dying instead of just boycotting “whites only” restaurants. You can do more good alive than dead, except maybe if you’ve already been a very effective symbolic figure like MLK whose death actually meant something to the country more than the deaths of the other innocent black men who were killed during that era.
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
That you’re willing for me to die for your ideals reveals your selfishness, not mine.
Bernie Sanders can’t replace Nancy Pelosi to become the House Minority Leader as Bernie Sanders is a Senator.
The Senate minority leader is Chuck Schumer.
Your numbers appear to be way off what I found.
According to TargetSmart, the total number of voters registered in October 2016 was 200,081,377.
Also the Voting-Eligible Population (VEP) was 230,585,915.
The Voting-Age Population (VAP) was 250,055,734.
The difference between VEP and VAP is non-citizens, ex-felons, prisoners, parolees and those on probation.
Vermont doesn’t have party registration. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) isn’t a registered Democrat either. It merely takes telling the Senate leadership that he now wants to be listed as a Democrat rather than an Independent, though as mentioned above, he still couldn’t become the House Minority Leader in the Senate.
