Are some on DU hoping Single Payer Health care fails?

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185. You mean like "defund Planned Parenthood!!!" the mantra that will

make it clear that all pregnancies should be wanted pregnancies? Which is what the Right thinks.

Or "Build that Wall" is a mantra that will make it clear that we want to send a message to terrorists to stay out? Which is what the Right thinks.

Mantras aren't always right, and they can sometimes destroy their own goals.

Did the mantra "repeal and replace" give the GOP an alternative to the ACA?

I look at mantras, and I like to know what they mean before joining in. Sometimes they accomplish a political goal instead of a goal that furthers justice...

I know that there is envy of the right, with their slogans and mantras like "MAGA" that give them a sense of power that comes with joining millions walking in lockstep, but I had no idea how prevalent it was, and how much of need people on the left are expressing it.

I'm not talking about "universal health care for all!" which is an actual goal, but "Medicare for All" which seems to be more a cult of personality, and says more about a specific, exclusionary path to getting to Universal Health Coverage, at the possible expense of getting there at all.