What’s keeping people from demanding it?
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People can demand it, but that isn’t how we could ever get it. The privatized healthcare system makes too much money and the left in the US Empire is only recently beginning to recover from the Red Scare and systematic dismantling by the state in the 20th century.
Now that the Red Scare is largely over, the United States is being dismantled by a compromised president controlled by Russia in the 21st century.
Born too early to see the US being dismantled by Russia, born too late to see the US being dismantled by Russia, born just in time to see the US being dismantled by Russia.
Now that the Red Scare is largely over
It never ended and won’t be over until capitalism is dead. What do you think the bullshit about a “Uyghur genocide” was for?
House votes to denounce ‘horrors’ of socialism ahead of Mamdani-Trump meeting
I can see that I’m not as well-read on the state of affairs as everyone else, and also I just noticed that I’m on .ml.
My apologies. I’ll remove myself from this instance until I am less ignorant about the world I live in.
You should stay on this instance to learn. Lots of learning material.
I’m still here, just not participating.
I’m really glad. Feel free to ask questions, a lot of really knowledgeable people are willing to point you in the right direction.
I am a leftist in thought, inspiration, and action, and my short term goals include the woodchipping of the entire Heritage Foundation, bunch of absolute ghouls they are;
but I have recently been humbled and realized I know *jack shit* about geopolitics and international history. That’s what I’m reading. Books, theory, education.
This isn’t true, though. Trump just isn’t quite as hawkish on Russia as many liberals would like, but if he was actually compromised he would be lifting sanctions and wouldn’t be attacking Russian allies like Iran and Venezuela.
Because the Dems would need a supermajority in both Houses. They had one in 2010 and still had to worry about defectors.
Look at the record, the GOP is going to fight anything that actually helps people.
The GOP has convinced a large percentage of the voters that they will lose everything if the ‘socialists’ take over.
The dems aren’t interested in dismantling the private healthcare industry. It’s too profitable and their donors need it.
Even while I was still a clueless lib, when I saw insurance companies sponsoring the DNC, I knew we’d never get publicly-funded healthcare.
Yep, great point! Gotta connect class interests.
To be clear, the guys who voted against it in 2010 were literal 70 year old boomers who were raised in McCarthyism and scared of communism. Like actually cited that “it’s too communist” as a reason to vote against it.
the democrats have had the opportunity to remove the super majority requirement from 2021 to 2023; again from 2007 to 2011; and again from 1987 to 1995, yet they chose not to.
It’s not red v blue. It’s people vs $s.
A plan - https://represent.us/
It’s not red v blue. It’s people vs $s.
agreed and my comment was a response to the assertion that democrats would vote on healthcare.
Seriously? Because that’s money flowing in the “wrong” direction, that is away from billionaires’ pockets.
This is literally all there is to it, along with indentured servitude by tying insurance to employment on top of it. This country’s fucked up healthcare system keeps the billionaires happy and the people stuck appeasing them.
The only opinion that matters for the government is the opinion of the 1%.
This isn’t any exaggeration: it has been demonstrated using statistical analysis
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.
Yep
A video about it- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfQij4aQq1k
Everybody has to want it, including majority of politicians in power.
Medicare for all and legal pot both have had an around 70% approval rate for about a decade now. The government simply doesnt care because those things do not make the right people rich. Studies have shown the US gov doesn’t respond to its voters, it responds to its financiers. It honest to god never mattered what we thought.
A plan to fix this - https://represent.us/
A video about it- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfQij4aQq1k
Congress represents capitalists and works for them, not the working classes. Any plan that cannot address the class conflict and the nature of the capitalist state instruments to uphold their class interests is doomed to fail.
There is no current organization of the working class to counter capitalist demands. Without organization, the working class will be kept powerless.
Sure, that’s what orgs like PSL are doing.
Given that I don’t know what the acronym is, they aren’t doing a great job.
All of the working class has part of the responsibility for the lack of organization, not just the organizations, it’s a two way relationship. PSL is trying a lot so that even myself that isn’t from the USA knows them, perhaps you not knowing that acronym is a fault in your own part.
I know of the Working Families Party and that party has had some success either winning their own election or running as Democrats.
A major job of a political party is to organize. If a party can’t organize while other ones can, maybe I shouldn’t support the party which can’t organize.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation. They are doing a good job, but party building takes time and effort.
I feel like we Marxists have explained why hundreds of times in dozens of ways already.
Helps keep people enlisting when the only way they can have their basic needs met is to sign up with the evil empire.
The companies make too much money, and the same companies dictate policy to the government.
The USA is not a democracy.
Because of decades of lobbying by the for-profit healthcare industry.
It would take a lot of pressure off of people to grind themselves down for profits as well as demonstrate that a government can actually take care of people, two precedents the capitalist class absolutely refuses to set.
“why isn’t the crumbling fascist imperial regime providing me healthcare?” is a question that answers itself OP
Because our sclerotic legislature and campaign finance systems ensure that every single function of “democratic” society is fully and totally captured by the interests of capital
