Sanders: 'Trump is right' on Australian healthcare system

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158. Thank goodness we now know

Just how right Trump really is. God forbid we focus on his actions throwing millions off healthcare and relegating them to death. A comment that wasn't completely insane managed to escape from his lips. We must all now stop and praise him for being right. Meanwhile, the bill moves to the senate and Trump salivates over killing millions of Americans. But he said something right about Australia. We must all be brought to heel to acknowledge that.

The problem isn't so much Bernie's tweet. It's that anything he says results in his supporters mobilizing around ensuring that his every word be heeded and revered. And we see the results of that here. The focus is not on the horror of ACHA but in ensuring everyone knows just how right Trump was.

If we lived in a time in which citizens did not devote themselves first and foremost to reverence for great men, his words would be nothing more than words. They might not matter more than the words of a local school teacher or pharmacist. People wouldn't bother themselves about whether strangers liked or disliked the politician any more than they would the schoolteacher. They would focus on the efforts in congress, on the policy and the lives impacted by it. But we don't live in times in a time where citizens are viewed as equal to elected officials. We live in the times where the utterances of a couple of great men must be defended, validated, and championed above all else.