as someone who's from the UK and would have lost many loved ones were it not for the NHS, including my parents, raising my voice would be the mildest thing I'd do if we didn't have universal healthcare #ForceTheVote

as I said a while back https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1321391703165685760

to those saying "what would it accomplish?": what did bernie arguing for having a vote in the senate for the 2K knowing it would fail bc it doesn't have a majority accomplish? did you oppose him doing that? did he "lose political capital" and "make it worse bc of the bad press"?

I'll tell you what it accomplished: it exposed the media and the vast majority of republicans as well as establishment democrats who were just performatively pretending to support it for the ghouls they are. and it thereby *built* political capital, i.e support, for bernie

what bernie did with the 2K stimulus shows that @briebriejoy's case for a floor vote is right https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/12/the-case-for-forcing-a-floor-vote-on-medicare-for-all