We can have a national healthcare program and state programs for other things. As we do, but better. After a few percent of the 100 million voters who think they want to stop it come to their senses.
Itm, this man's life is devoted to promoting progressive government. We can learn from what he and other deep progressive thinkers know. Think of progressive government not as one simple crisp goal, Medicare for the REAL All, suddenly threatened by shades of gray, but that PLUS many other progressive goals to be achieved.
As for,
For example:
What will happen if each city makes their own healthcare-policy?
Their own minimum-wage policy?
Their own environmental policy?
Their own regulations with respect to predatory forms of capitalism?
Det, our state and local governments already have the rights to do these things and many do. What would be wrong with a state or local government EXCEEDING/PROVIDING ADDITIONAL healthcare, minimum wage limits, environmental regulations, business regulations?
Those are precious rights we have to protect. One of the first things authoritarian governments do after taking power is to limit/eliminate the authority of lower governments in order to consolidate power. The fascists/authoritarian types behind and in the Republican Party don't have that much power yet, but the Republican Party already does it as much as possible. They DO pass predatory and restrictive laws that prohibit all laws and programs that try to get around them to serve the people. I was just reading about yet another one the other day.
Our founding fathers very carefully centralized some governmental functions and left others dispersed to the states. They refused to centralize power within the central government itself to protect us from tyranny. The government they gave us is an intrinsically progressive structure within which we can achieve it all, or as much as possible in the real world.
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