Does Bernie Know Dems Need A Miracle?

[Benton]

Trump's accomplishments mostly include decreasing the job growth we had at the end of the Obama admin, reducing access to healthcare for thousands, borrowing money to build a border wall that literally can't withstand wind, getting impeached trying to prove that a- Hunter Biden is corrupt and b- Russia didn't interfere in his election, losing the popular vote, increasing my taxes by getting rid of some small business exemptions, ostracizing long standing allies in favor of Russia, expanding socialism by way of subsidizing segments of the population his policies have hurt, serving as commander in chief at a time with record enlisted suicides and throwing more money at wars he couldn't win.



Seriously, he's done a few good things, but hanging his reelection on his accomplishments is absurd. His reelection hinges more on what won it for him the first time: making people believe he will make their life better (which he's largely failed at) and having democrats putting up a weak candidate.

Personally, I think trump will do pretty well but it depends on his ability to hold onto those ec states. A halfway decent candidate could flip a flyover state or two, maybe even Ohio.

As far as socialism, I wish people would stop. It's beyond silly. We have socialism. We've had socialism for over a century. And anyone on Medicare/Medicare, drawing social security, going to their library, visiting a public park, accepting a government subsidy (businesses that is) and dozens of other things are taking part in socialism.

Healthcare reform is not dealing socialism, not in the way the gop paints it anyway. There's no "free" anything, it's all paid for by taxes. Or it's pure capitalism where it's all paid for by consumer (the direction the gop is trying to take it).

So you've got two options on all things, but we'll use healthcare as an example.

Option A- go all in on capitalism. And when someone has a heart attack and can't afford the $10,000 emergency room bill or $80,000 heart cath.... They die. Capitalism doesn't care.

Option b- tell lawmakers how you want your tax money spent, which, if it's affordable healthcare, there's goverent options like coops, drug price negotiations, service price controls, etc.

Option a is what the gop is advocating and mostly why we have the prices we have now. Option b is what they call socialized medicine: any attempt to regulate the industry.