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In reply to the discussion: Did Sen. Cory Booker blow his chance to win the 2020 Prez nomination? [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,937 posts)bbut he proved he wasn't so stupid that he could not put two and two together and realize that if he did not pretend to do something about the rising cost of drugs he was going to get creamed. Now an idiot like Ted Cruz can see that, why the hell couldn't the person who wants to go ahead and possibly run against Trump himself in 2020?
It is one thing to hate Bernie, and belittle anyone who did not walk in line with the great election disaster in 2016, is another entirely to see that people, regardless of political affiliation, are scared shirtless that they will have to make a choice between medicine aand everything else. Even Ted cruises voters do not like the possibility that they might need to start learning how to make meatloaf out of Cat food bbecause drugs that they have no choice to avoid taking will eat what little money they have left.
And really, does anyone by brokers a weak sauce explanation that we had to maintain medical standards? Maybe Corey should take a look at countries that do a much better job of medicine than we do, llike Canada. What do you think, that Canada will secretly get drugs from some third world hell hole, label it Canada, and that people wind up getting poisoned? It's not like American drugs don't kill people, or that American doctors don't lie. It's really funny considering how many of these American drugs wind up being made abroad in places like Mexico or India or China and yet those Canadian pills are evil, so evil that many of the people could not afford to get them in America try to get them through Canada.
The bottom line is this is the same sort of toadying to donors that made us a lot weaker than we should have been when we fought Trump. If we do not want to keep losing to Trump, or the people that the GOP already lined up that will make Trump look like FDR, we have to stop traveling every time the donors get mad.