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Obama didn't give us anything. We had Carter, Clinton, Obama, and Biden, and none them gave us any substantial health care plan at all. Obama came closest, with a Republican plan. He finally threw us a bone, and it was a Republican bone.
And then the Congressional Democrats gave it back.
This isn't even Mamdani's best quote,. I like this one:
Perfect.
Dudes like this reply above always show up to announce they want tens of millions of people thrown off healthcare, always an incredible sight.
A. "we grew a carrot"
B. "Okay but why stop there? Let's build a whole garden so everyone can eat!"
A. "Oh so you want the person we gave a carrot to to starve huh asshole?"
Wtf are you on about?
Check this comment thread, there are literally people calling the healthcare accomplishment we made a "Republican Plan".
You don't have to argue how the tens of millions of carrots aren't 340 million everytime somebody brings up how amaxing the accomplishment is. Nobody ever praised the carrots and opposed making more, that is a nonexistent stance. The only reason to criticize the limited scope of the carrots is to shame the DNC.
The DNC have accomplished good with every paultry majority they've scraped together and I'm sick of disingenuous assholes claiming otherwise.
Because it literally was. It was a version of Romneycare, that's part of why they couldn't repeal and replace, there's nothing they could replace it with cause it was their plan.
Shame is good. Shame is one of the few means we have of sending a message that their actions are unacceptable. They don't represent you or me, they represent their donors. And before you get on your high horse - yes I vote for these corrupt assholes, but I don't understand why we would be content with this. I don't understand why you're defending them. It's like Stockholm syndrome or something. Maybe if they actually stood for something they'd have more than a paltry majority. They can't even stand against genocide, like, for fucks sake that's the bare minimum. I think that's what's been so eye opening for so many recently.
Other countries aren't like this. Our country wasn't always like this. Things can be different. The system has been completely consumed by the interests of the wealthy and wealth inequality is higher than it's ever been.
Mandami talks about FDR style governing. The last time a Democrat tried that he got elected 4 times and ended up dying in office. Don't tell me thats unelectable.
We've had 48 or less DNC Senators for over 13 years. Shame has not worked at fucking all and is commonly disingenuous shame like yours refusing to admit they did something good.