Hillary supporters are calling single payer health insurance a "pie in the sky" fantasy

[DaveT]

74. pandering?

That is rich. The Hillary Campaign on this board is dedicated to the proposition that things like Single Payer are impossible. Well, it is certainly impossible if you don't try.

But the hilarity of your post comes from your implication that something else might be "viable" when the Tea Party controls the House of Representatives. Without a strategy for dealing with the gerrymandered wingnut majority in Congress, your candidate is offering nothing but defeatism.

Obama has spent almost five years trying to get them to compromise with him. How's that working out?

Sanders says out front that his wish list will be a fight. And that it will take pressure from below to pass anything. Which is true. So long as politics is a question of fund raising, there will be nothing worth a crap ever passed by the Congress. You can accept that as the way it has to be -- as you do -- or you can look at the demographic changes in the country and realize that we can beat them. Current polling shows that Sanders matches up against the GOP better than does Madame Juggernaut.

That is the fundamental disagreement between us. You think that liberal politics cannot win. You state it as though it were a fact, but it is just a prediction -- and a self-fulfilling prophecy.