Senator asks for CBO score of Sanders's single-payer bill

[Ninsianna]

91. It's amazing that you don't seem to understand what the CBO is

or how it works, or why you think reading from the GOP script from a few weeks ago somehow relates to the sponsors of a bill.

It's amazing how little people who are newly into politics know about how basic government works and why they think everything is about petty squabbles.

Where is anyone disagreeing with them? It's too bad that those who are clearly ignorant about how government works are so eager to attack anyone who wonders why using THE ACTUAL GOP SCRIPT to attack the CBO is somehow patronizing or a lecture.

I have a feeling that attacking the CBO here with GOP level poutrage is done for the exact same reason they did it, to deny the lack of planning or logic in the plan itself.

It's too bad that education and logic are considered privilege, and that "toeing the line" is required by those who thrive on ignorance, emulate the GOP and who lash out whenever anyone challenges any belief, no matter how mildly on basis of facts. I have a feeling that such people only describe themselves and illustrate why the GOP and this blind jingoism and lack of actual critical thought is such a failure on so many levels.

I also doubt that such people will ever admit it.

Learn what the CBO is and figure out that explaining its role is not an attack but an attempt to correct what now seems to be willful ignorance. Folks with privilege are those who refuse to educate themselves and continue the almost religious devotion to toeing the line that is so destructive on the Right. This isn't what the left is about, and Conyers, Harris, Booker and those other proponents of Universal Healthcare, Hillary, Barack, Nancy and Chuck already know. You still need to do the math and know how policies are constructed, you can't just wing it, and let other people figure out the details.