Stop calling it Medicare for All and we will see a serious decrease in "attacks"

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24. Rebranding won't help. We can try realistically for a public option, but not with a fake demand

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for single payer when everyone knows that has no chance.

There's already a lot of support for the public option, including among Republicans.

As for depth of legislative experience -- the candidate with the most legislative experience and the best record getting legislation passed is Joe Biden.

We owe some of the signature accomplishments of the Obama administration to Biden's ability to talk Republicans over to our side:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287262162

That Twitter thread refers to the stimulus and the ACA, but from what I've read it's also likely that we'd never have seen Dodd-Frank passed, including the CFPB that Warren's so proud of, without Biden's help getting the necessary votes.

If he's our nominee and he wins, I believe there's a pretty good chance we'll retake the Senate and have a good chance of getting a public option, which may or may not become a stepping stone to single payer, depending on how well it works.

Without Biden's abilities and experience, I would not bet on that much of an advance.

As for Medicare For All or whatever you want to call it... When I polled DUers, who are much more liberal than the average Democrat, on what they thought the chances of getting MFA through Congress would be, even if we somehow managed to elect a Democratic nominee who favored MFA, I found only a very small fraction of DUers believed it was a possibility:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287226281