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Never in a million years would I have guessed that some on the left would oppose a vote on medicare for all during a pandemic where 300k people have died and 15+ million have lost their insurance. I'm genuinely astonished and disappointed.
If you oppose the current plan to fight for medicare for all it's incumbent upon you to tell us what *your* plan is, in detail. When do you want the vote? What benchmarks have to be met before you call for the vote? Nobody against the current plan is answering these questions.
Rejecting a concrete plan to fight for medicare for all *right now* for a nebulous undefined one at some obscure date in the future is inadvertent interference for the worst forces in the country. It's a high minded rationalization to accept the status quo longer.
"this is all theater!" - theater yields results! Ask the tea party who voted to repeal Obamacare like 70 times then rode the enthusiasm of their base to giant wins. It's not that complicated, fucking stand for something & fight for something & you'd be surprised at the results!
Just to be clear, opposing this plan is to oppose the tea party tactics (which worked), and to embrace the tactics that have proven not to work because the left has embraced this incremental-behind-closed-doors approach for decades and has dick to show for it.
