then adopt them. Is it payment for media air time? Defending/explaining the term, "defund the Police", did more damage than a dozen Trump rallies. About as much damage as the FBI report of investigating nothing in 2016.
The fact that Trump is such a horrible excuse for a human being is what got Joe Biden elected. Voters didn't choose between the lesser of two evils this time. They expediently voted to reject the asshole, the evil.
However, on the healthcare angle, I might disagree. The term "single payer health care system" is easily translatable. It means that you don't have a doctor bill, a pharmacy bill, a surgery bill, a hospital bill, a copay or any limit of care based on your ability to pay. The screaming and groaning come from health insurance companies, doctor's conglomerates, hospital conglomerates, the pharmaceutical industry and all other profit generators whose business model rests on the health needs (the suffering, if you will) of people. The confusion about it, the acceptance of the status quo, the social frustrations which get twisted and end up aimed at progressives are the net product of "talking points" created by the current health care industry.
These are points which we have been trained to accept as legitimate without fair examination or rebuttal. Their most popular talking point is a question, "how are you going to pay for it?" The answer is simply, "by ironing out the inconsistencies in your profit margin." "But that's socialism! The tax burden on the American people will be outrageous", they will steadfastly aver. "No, that's good business! Federal taxes, the only means of funding the national single payer plan, will be less than our current health care costs and you know it", we reply.
Our talking point should be, "The health care industry, not unlike the funeral industry, gleans it's final profit, it's sure money, from looting the estates of terminally ill senior citizens. It's a bad business that relies on the ruin of its clients, people who depend on their good intentions, to fill their bottom line."
On Tee-Vee, predictably, the whole argument devolves into their mercenary finger pointing and accusations of poor life choices and just deserts, law of the jungle, etc. Highlighted by crazily illogical scenarios of overcrowded emergency rooms and bankrupt pharmacies, the host offers excuses and, "we'll have to get back to this when we have more time".
That's where we are now. I hope Biden can move the moment forward a bit. It's about the talking points.
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