Neoliberalism is unironically good. 🌈
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There are a lot of reasons to be wary about a Medicare for All plan:
1. The cost... people will point out that total healthcare spending is projected to go down, but it's not so simple to "move" the money that's spent in the private market today into government coffers to spend on M4A. It's logistically difficult but moreso it's politically difficult. People don't like taxes more than they don't like paying their employer for a benefit. There will also be people who pay more in this new tax than they paid on their old employer plan, they won't be happy either.
2. A main reason that overall costs would be projected to be lower is that Medicare has WAY lower reimbursement rates for providers. M4A basically represents a mass defunding of hospitals and providers. If you look at healthcare professions in other countries they are all paid way less. Big salary cuts for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, x ray techs... you get the idea... is not going to be popular. But you're forcing hospitals to take massive revenue cuts with these reimbursement rates so what else is there to do, labor is their largest expense.
3. Complete government control of what is and isn't covered, how everything is administered, etc. It's Sarah Palin's "death panels" but real this time lol. Obviously we have a ton of people on government plans already, and government run healthcare is fine if it's run by competent people who want to see it succeed and know what they are doing.
The problem is that our country has a political party hell bent on making public goods and services worse and now they're full of cranks and kooks like RFK. I would much rather a system with private insurers where I can shop around vs. being forced onto a government plan run by a nutjob.
4. Most people like their current insurance plan, most people are covered by insurance, and we don't need to do this massive disruption to the system to cover the people who are currently uninsured. We can expand the safety net, offer a public option, lower the age to buy into Medicare, etc. There are plenty of "boring" reforms that would accomplish the goal of universal healthcare, they're just not as flashy or sexy as Medicare for All so a lot of people don't care because it's not actually about healthcare for them, it's about politics.
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ok? That's not really the point, whatever you think of them AES is not very adept at appealing to them and that's very obvious
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This is exactly wrong because AES has gone out of his way NOT to do this lmao? That's why he's struggling so much, he's got too much of an ego to just answer the questions about his background because he thinks he's above it.
Compare to someone like Obama who was excellent at disarming these attacks by meeting moderate white people where they were.
Zohran is good at this too.
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neoliberal_hack 🌐 retweeted
Clyburn is spending time in Michigan instead of South Carolina in the home stretch because we nominated someone who had to get dragged over the finish line due to his bad personality and unpopular views.
#MichiganSenate
Semafor: Jim Clyburn Stumping for Abdul El-Sayed
Democrats have a closer in Michigan’s Senate race: South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn. He’s heading to Michigan this weekend to rally Democrats in support of Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed
Michigan Democrats are trying to project unity and turn out Black voters ahead of Election Day amid concerns among some party members that Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers could erode the party’s edge among Black voters.
semafor.com/article/10/29/20…
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.@SarahLongwell25: “Who do I like? Nobody on the Republican side…That puts us in a broad allyship in a pro-democracy coalition…Obviously we disagree on other things, but we should talk about them as allies and not have people smearing each other's intentions.”
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I wish it were so but this is pretty naive, the progressives ultimately hate people like Sarah and are absolutely not aligned on Democracy as a first priority, most of them would be absolutely fine with Trump style authoritarianism if it was being used to advance THEIR political project.
For example many of them were calling for the Biden DOJ to fake investigate/threaten Joe Manchin's daughter in exchange for his vote on build back better legislation.
I think the Bulwark folks fundamentally misunderstand the socialist project to some extent.
@Timodc
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neoliberal_hack 🌐 retweeted
We need to regulate public sector unions.
They aren't negotiating against a for-profit business.
They're negotiating against the public and our tax money.
sick and tired of public sector employees and unions treating cities as some unlimited source of cash that involves no tradeoffs or externalities
every hundred million raise package is a lost opportunity to help the lives of majorities just so an in-group of workers gets theirs.
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I think moderate members need to draw their own hard line here and insist that Jeffies not bring bills that don’t have 218 to the floor — there is no point in doing this except to make frontliners look bad.
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They represent the democratic party and their voters why the fuck would they be pushing to capitulate to republican sentiment when Republicans aren't theur voters? 😂😂😂
Do Republicans need the approval of democrats before they act?
What a silly reply.
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Actually, they represent all of their constituents. And Matt's point is that there are a lot of frontline Democrats in purple and red districts or states that rely on independent and center-right voters in order to win their seats. There are not enough Democrats in those districts or states to win just on base voters.
Secondly, these are not the real approval ratings for these policies, even among Democrats. These are carefully worded push polls designed to create the narrative that these policies are more popular than they really are.
For example, as soon as people learn what these policies entail, like the fact that they will lose their private insurance, approval ratings crater. Same thing if you tell them that their taxes are going to go up to pay for any of these initiatives.
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The New York Post spots Graham Platner for the first time since suspending his campaign for Senate in Maine.
“Who the f–k are you weirdos?” Platner asked after The Post caught up with him a week before the midterm election.
Link to article: nypost.com/2026/10/29/us-new…
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With all due respect I think its fair to let him have his peace. Hes an ass sure but he complied and saw the writing on the walls and didnt make it everyone else's problem. I think we can at least leave him alone and let him sort out his own personal affairs.
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Thankfully most Jews in Michigan are putting country over party and common sense over crazy and not voting for the candidate that is, as you correctly pointed out, a raging antisemite.
This is not helpful but not for nothing Jews in Michigan should obviously vote for AES even if he is a raging antisemite because the stakes in the senate are so high.
Like I would vote for the Westboro Baptist Church leader for senate if I knew they'd vote for a liberal Supreme Court justice.
You don't have to like him (I don't!) but putting your identity first at the long term detriment of yourself and the entire country just to spite AES seems.... short sighted.
and to be clear I don't think he's a RAGING antisemite lol.
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I explicitly said that he is not a raging antisemite, you are just a fucking loser trying to enable Donald Trump and a conservative supreme court for the rest of your time left on earth.
Voting for Mike Rogers doesn't put the country first and you buffoons can't even claim to be doing this in the name of anti bigotry now that Trump and Rogers are out there calling AES a jihadist terrorist.
get fucked man.
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This is not helpful but not for nothing Jews in Michigan should obviously vote for AES even if he is a raging antisemite because the stakes in the senate are so high.
Like I would vote for the Westboro Baptist Church leader for senate if I knew they'd vote for a liberal Supreme Court justice.
You don't have to like him (I don't!) but putting your identity first at the long term detriment of yourself and the entire country just to spite AES seems.... short sighted.
and to be clear I don't think he's a RAGING antisemite lol.
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It’s “If we ~defeat fascism~ by enabling antisemitism we have simply traded one awful ideology for another. Long term, voting for candidate quality gets a better world than voting party line, and if I don’t hold the line now what credibility do I have when I say I will next time?
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Yes, it is and it generally does. But be cautious of “outweighs almost anything else” as that makes it very easy to justify all manner of excesses. You don’t want a “we had to destroy the city to save the city” moment…
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There will always be (very real!) reasons that *this* election is too important, the stakes are too high, we have to put principles to the side just this one (more) time.
We cannot, must not, mortgage the fundamental decency of our body politic to pay for the urgencies of today.
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Will electing Rogers stop antisemitism? Nope. Sadly, history teaches that nothing will. Instead I will settle for knowing that when a Jewish preschool applies for a grant to improve its security, it can count on the support of its elected officials. The bar is in hell.
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Trump is a mentally ill crook who doesn't believe the law applies to him. Both him and his movement are dying. Hamas and Hezbollah are far more anti-liberal than him and the people glorifying them as liberation movements are ascending. That's dangerous for everyone, but especially for Jews.
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The benefit is that for the next 6 years their sitting US senator won’t make excuses when a terrorist attacks their synagogue. I grew up blocks from the Tree of Life in Pittsburgh. I received threats in college myself. Is it so shocking that Jews choose the safety of their kids?
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But I don’t think electing Mike rogers makes Jewish kids any safer. It’s not going to stop antisemitism. Republicans aren’t a safe haven for Jews, it’s the party of Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson.
I think AES comments are despicable, but big picture we have the most fascist president of our lifetimes and checking his power is the top priority. It’s more important than one more antisemite in a body of 100 people.
I wanted Stevens, I get that it’s a sucky choice to make but it seems fairly obvious.
Not to mention that Trump with Roger’s blessing is making insane bigoted comments about AES and Muslims. Rogers himself called Abdul a terrorist. A terrorist!
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It’s not spite. He is leading an anti-liberal movement. His Jew hatred is at least as much the center of his identity as racism is the center of Trump’s.
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What would you tell a pro-life republican in 2016 who finds Trump’s character disqualifying? Should they vote for him anyway to overturn Roe? By your logic they should.
At some point principles have to matter. Norms have to matter. Or we will continue our race to the bottom.
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Yeah, if you're number one issue is being against abortion of course you should have voted for Donald Trump. You would have gotten what you wanted!
Now if abortion was just one of many priorities then it's more complicated.
What is the benefit that these voters are getting by standing on principle and voting against Abdul? Are they decreasing anti-semitism long term? Are Democratic primary voters going to start to care more about being pro-Israel if Abdul loses? I doubt it.
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I actually want him to lose because we can spare one house seat and he's an astronomical fucking loser.
Will Lawrence is ready to take on Republicans in D.C. who are cutting our health care while jacking up the price of gas, groceries, and everything in between.
Let’s flip this seat blue, take back the House, and send Will to Congress to fight for Michigan families. @WeWill2026
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