Summary
Bernie Sanders criticizes the Democratic Party for neglecting the working class, leading to their recent election losses.
He highlights issues like economic inequality, job displacement, healthcare costs, and foreign policy as key concerns for the American people.
Sanders questions whether the Democratic leadership will address these issues or remain beholden to big money interests.
ACA wasn’t even a bandaid. It only helped the middle class by reducing and capping costs and removing preexisting condition clauses. The poors still couldn’t afford it, and were punished for that either by having to pay for the still expensive insurance or being fined at tax time. It’s not an insignificant reason we got trump in the first place.
Lol you’ve drank too much of the coolaid. The ACA was better than what we had before but still not even close to fixing our disastrous Healthcare System. Middle class people still can’t afford preventive care and the line between the poors and the middle class just gets smaller every day with the shrinking of the middle class. There is no marginal growth/change when we know the answer to this problem. Anything short of universal health care coverage cost none wealthy people their lives.
Im mainly angry at ACA for the exact reasons you present here. Many benefited from it but the people i spent the most time around people who still couldn’t access care. Healthcare must be universally free to be meaningful.
That said it did benefit people. Just not what it needed to be.
May point is arguing from the already compromised position didn’t bring about enough change.
I am not Naive to, the realities of this world.
I am not Naive to, the past pains and harms done to others that brought us to the current state of the world.
I am not Naive to, the fact that change happens slowly and rearly without violence.
I am not Naive to, the fact that I will not get everything I want financially, politically, or socially.
I am not Naive to the fact that those that oppose my beliefs and values may come to do harm to me and those like me.
I am not Naive.
But I do know what’s Naive.
It is Naive, to argue from an already compromised position.
It is Naive, to not take on other struggles as your own because those that wish to do harm are on your side.
It is Naive to, forget the lessons from the past.
It is Naive to, think those worse off don’t hold limitless potential.
It is Naive to, not argue for the most kind and empathetic position as possible.
Because the compromise will be less kind and empathetic than the compromises that came before.
We are not Naive.