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2016 Postmortem

treestar

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10. why is it better to wish a much higher number of people suddenly unemployed?

Reply to djean111 (Reply #6)

Tue Nov 24, 2015, 06:34 PM

Nov 2015

that's where the resistance comes from. You have to convince people they are going to still be OK. Can't simply say "insurance companies bad." Everyone who works at one resists. When people think they are protecting their own job, they can rationalize anything.

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I think all of us think that single payer [View all] upaloopa Nov 2015 OP

Yep, all that will happen when pigs fly. leftofcool Nov 2015 #1

Yes, and this! MoonRiver Nov 2015 #2

........ daleanime Nov 2015 #8

obviously you support our current fucked up system ibegurpard Nov 2015 #3

Ask just about any Bernie supporter and they'll tell you,... daleanime Nov 2015 #4

More defense of the Status Quo. nt Romulox Nov 2015 #5

I suspect that this - djean111 Nov 2015 #6

why is it better to wish a much higher number of people suddenly unemployed? treestar Nov 2015 #10

we can tell them the same thing we've been telling factory workers. ibegurpard Nov 2015 #11

they do change treestar Nov 2015 #13

Sometimes you have to play the long game. Broward Nov 2015 #7

So your view is that we are incapable of doing now what the UK did in the rationed and difficult Bluenorthwest Nov 2015 #9

Homer Simpson has it right neverforget Nov 2015 #12