2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: 5 ways your money could be affected by a Bernie Sanders presidency [View all]Kall
(615 posts)if your idea of an ideal President is one whose vision is limited to what Mitch McConnell will agree with. My idea of an ideal President is one who will sell an actual Democratic vision to the public, make the Republicans negotiate from an unpopular position, and make sure the public knows who blocked the best solutions for future Congressional elections. The only people saying anyone thinks this will be easy are HRC supporters, but some people want to start the work.
The ACA that Hillary keeps touting as a wonderful accomplishment was an act of corruption, incompetence and political malpractice. It wasn't "hard" where the Democrats publicly sold a vision, and disregarded special interests. It was a process set up to be impossible to fail, so that they couldn't possibly fail to pass a bill which would result in Congress going Republican in 2010 like in 1994 (oops). The Democrats took the best, popular solutions off the table before beginning negotiations, invited the insurance and pharmaceutical industries to the table to help write it, and spent a year chasing Republican votes which they were never going to give, and kept trying even after Chuck Grassley said they "wanted to pull the plug on Grandma". As a result, the ACA is a health care plan that was actually drawn up by Republican outfits like the Heritage Foundation and Republicans like Mitt Romney, and therefore it doesn't work well so unlike, say, Medicare (a single-payer system) it's always been underwater in public opinion, so the Republicans can try to repeal it 60 times without any public backlash.
The Republican Party hates Hillary Clinton with the fury of a thousand suns, so why do you think they'll work with her towards her priorities? "Getting things done" with them won't consist of any policies a liberal would want, unless you had a hankering for things like the TPP, once the primary is over and she changes position on that again.
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