Dems could have simply gotten rid of the filibuster and passed free healthcare with 50 votes, and shown an entire generation of voters that politics is a viable means of achieving positive social change. But they genuinely do not want this because the donor class does not want this, so they let the rules stop them.

For the dems, a generation of energized, politically active 20-30 year olds is a problem to overcome.

You don’t need to be progressive to understand “free healthcare”, and “free healthcare” polls better than “subsidies for insurance companies”. “Free college” polls better than “means-tested forgiveness for STEM grads who operate a business in an underserved neighborhood for 5 years”. The great thing about left policy is that you don’t need to trick people or gauge people’s political positions and try to match them against a 5 dimensional chart, you’re simply using the tools available to improve people’s material conditions and people will vote for it because the alternative is immediately worsening conditions. Look at europe, public healthcare is so popular even the conservatives need to pretend to support it.

You don’t need to be progressive to understand “free healthcare”, and “free healthcare” polls better than “subsidies for insurance companies”. “Free college” polls better than “means-tested forgiveness for STEM grads who operate a business in an underserved neighborhood for 5 years”. The great thing about left policy is that you don’t need to trick people or gauge people’s political positions and try to match them against a 5 dimensional chart, you’re simply using the tools available to improve people’s material conditions and people will vote for it because the alternative is immediately worsening conditions. Look at europe, public healthcare is so popular even the conservatives need to pretend to support it.

The only way the dems can win is if they implement overwhelmingly popular left policy such as free healthcare, and fight the republicans using every tool at their disposal.

The only time we have seen dems accede to popular demand is when Biden had a less than 5% chance at winning.

Do you see where I’m going with this? Voting blue no matter who lets the DNC delude themselves into thinking they can win while running on dogshit policy. If we tell the dems the only way we will vote for them is if they do the thing they need to do to win anyway, they might actually do the things they need to do to win.

You only need a simple majority to remove the filibuster. We elected them to use their power, not to let their hands be tied by rules that never seem to stop them or the republicans from doing bad things.

lmao talking about human rights when we have the highest prison population in the world. Have you ever felt like you had influence on the state’s actions? The average cuban has, in their lifetime, been able to help write their own constitution, and then vote for it by referendum. The average Chinese feels their government represents their interests.

There is also the fact that democrats lost in 2024, and 2016, and the way the dems lost the house and senate in 2010 after bailing out the banks for stealing people’s houses and giving the health insurance companies subsidies instead of giving us healthcare. Turns out when you do the opposite of what your base wants, fewer people vote.

Voting for the conservative in 2020 gave us Trump in 2024.

The only way we could have avoided Trump in 2024 is if a conservative didn’t win the primary in 2020, and the only way that would have happened is if the DNC knew a conservative didn’t have a shot in hell.

If the DNC believes we will vote for whatever they give us, we will get no concessions. Our mistake in 2020 was compromising and voting for Biden in the hope we could get some concessions after the election.

The party doesn’t want medicare4all, hence why they didnt pass it when they had the power to, or use some of the executive’s powers to get as much non-means tested heathcare to the people as possible.

Ill vote in the primary, but 2020 showed us, if our guy doesn’t win, voting for a conservative in the general is still handing power to the Republicans

You’re confusing cause and effect; democrats need to promise policy that improves people’s material conditions if they want people to vote for them, and use every single power at their disposal to prevent further harm until then to prove they will do as they say if they win. Nobody is going to vote for a party that they dont believe will help them.

You cant win while telling your own base “eat shit, what are you gonna do, not vote?”

The liberal status quo inevitably leads to fascism. This shit doesn’t happen in Cuba, Vietnam, or China because they dont let capitalism stop them from addressing societal problems.

The centrist voter is a myth. There is not a human who will vote for “means-tested subsidies for a state-run employer-funded health insurance marketplace where you have no idea what it will cover or cost.” But wouldn’t vote for “free healthcare” when you move to the center by compromising your bills, you lose voters who suspect the policy won’t help them, you dont gain a bunch of “moderate Republicans” who want only half of immigrants subjected to inhumane conditions.

Protip: Tell the doctor it’s wearing off too early so they increase your dosage. Only take the normal amount until you have a month backup stockpile, then renew your script at a lower rate. The doctor will understand if you’re only renewing every other month because you forget or don’t bother to take it some mornings.