Amazing what happens when you dig beneath soundbytes on healthcare:

• At the same time that Americans see a government role in ensuring universal U.S. healthcare coverage, they prefer that the nation’s healthcare system be based on private insurance rather than run by the government. Currently, 53% of U.S. adults prefer a private system, while 43% support a government-run system. Since 2010, when the measure was first tracked, the public has consistently favored private insurance, with just one exception: In 2017, U.S. adults were evenly divided in their preferences.

Also, until a majority votes based on Gaza and money in politics, neither will be addressed. Just because someone agrees with you doesn’t mean it will affect their vote. Sad but true.

Actively ignoring 24% of your base seems fucking crazy, but again.

That’s called “doing what a significant majority of your voters want.” Not doing so would be political suicide.

Also I’ve voted in every major and minor election since I turned 18. But my favourite part is you’re supposed to vote.

This is not about you. You are not the center of the universe.

But then they look at less than a third of a percent of the vote going to progressive party and ignore us.

Yes, that’s called “doing what a significant majority of your voters want.” Again. I don’t know why that’s such a foreign concept.

Retroactive correction

I actually misspoke on the first comment and double checked my source. Progressives are 12% of the left, which comes to 6% of the overall population. Despite how overwhelmingly popular progressives consider themselves to be, they are a very small minority on the national stage. Like vanishingly small. Catering to their priorities at the expense of everyone else’s would be patently ridiculous and a surefire way out of office in all but the smallest Congressional districts.