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In reply to the discussion: Are some on DU hoping Single Payer Health care fails? [View all]KPN
(15,642 posts)Saying it isn't is disingenuous or uninformed imo. Vermont has less than 630,000 people living in it for crying out loud. Among all the States, only Wyoming has a smaller population but not by much. Geesh!
What I'm hearing here is denial. And that strikes me as pretty darned arrogant especially in the face of our party's recent decline and failures.
What I'm hearing is "we woulda, coulda, shoulda won if it weren't for every possible reason other than we didn't appeal to voters adequately to actually win. No need to change what we're doing. No reason to take a different tack.
Look, I'm not saying that single payer is the only solution, but running around saying we're for incrementalism is not an inspiring or confidence building proposition for most people. It doesn't garner votes from those who are currently dissatisfied and either didn't vote or didn't vote for Hillary in 2016.
My view? The Democratic Party needs to stop giving the impression that it is satisfied playing and operating along the margins rather than standing up for what is right for working class Americans. It needs to stand up and take on the socially destructive aspects of unbridled capitalism head on. It needs to stand up for the working class in a way that the working class actually feels like it is. Wonkish incrementalism doesn't do that. Instead it breeds distrust. Just look at the results.