Warren: The Next Step For Dems Is Single-Payer Health Care

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42. Time to stop talking crap about voters who didn't support Clinton, and start asking why

One can stew in a pool of resentment and anger about those who, in ones opinion, were idiots/extremists/anarchists/communists/left-purists....or whatever other name one drapes them with. The harder question to face is why? And that perhaps there are valid reasons why some see Democrats not having solid principles and hear mixed messages towards health care reform. When Clinton said "its not going to happen"...how that cut like a knife through many on the left. How even universal single payer, the basic norm in every other democracy, was now out of the question for at the very least Hillary's term, which may have been eight years long. And then who knows after that? depressing.

It is never about what is possible at the moment, it is about changing the conversation, and by talking about it in positive, dare I say inevitable, terms, day in and day out. Pushing talking points on how it will make health costs go down, once the initial implementation is paid for. That its better for businesses when competing in international bids where other companies don't have to pay for their own workers basic coverage. Stress that in the 21st century, isn't it time to make healthcare a right and not a privilege?

Wringing ones hands and spending ones time insisting that it can never happen, could be better spent in promoting it as the only way forward. Just like gay marriage, or pot legalization, here is a zeitgeist shift once a critical mass is attained in society. Democrats need to stop begging for a few morsels to be kept into the already corrupted and defanged new health care bill, and leap frog the whole mess and start promoting Medicare for All. Or Americare. Democrats need to start to promote, dare I say get positively excited about, the future instead of hand wringing about the past and present. Because that will be infectious.