Many conservatives are for immigration reform and criminal justice reform.
Yes, his name was John McCain and he’s dead. Trump wiped his ass with the Republican autopsy from 2012. What’s their current plan? Cutting legal immigration and gearing immigration policy to attract people from Norway? Muslim ban?
Some Republicans are just coming around now to what progressives have been saying about criminal justice in the 1970s and 1990s. And I said progressives, not Democrats.
Reagan after all signed off on amnesty for 3 million or so immigrants. Do not judge Republicans and conservatives generally by the boobs in office now.
The party of Reagan is dead, and Reagan was also garbage.
I agree that the healthcare system is a mess - it’s not a free market and treating it as such and applying free market solutions to it are stupid. Single payer may be a decent fix though I think the problems go deeper than that, but even single payer has issues.
Every big solution creates problems. Such as...
What do you with all those insurance co employees who are now out of work?
I don’t know. What do we do with all the dog kickers when we eliminate the dog kicking business? Seriously, that’s a bad argument. Hundreds of thousands shouldn’t suffer because the system that MAKES them suffer might lose some jobs. Also, Bernie’s plan has a transition mechanism to train those employees.
What do you do about doctors who’ve taken on massive debt to pay for their educations but now don’t have the income to pay those loans back?
Seriously?
And how will you find it? “The way we always do” isn’t an answer it’s a cop out. Medicare for all will cost about 25-30 Trillion dollars over 10 years.
Which is cheaper than if the current system continues.
Where specifically is it coming from?
Tax payers. And it will cover everyone, save thousands of lives a year, prevent tens of thousands of bankruptcies, make America healthier with a focus on preventative medicines, etc, etc., etc. The American people aren’t stupid. They realize that Medicare for All is a sweet deal, even if it raises taxes.
Green New Deal? Just a bunch of ideas with no detail on how it’s paid for and how disruptions are dealt with.
Yes, it’s a goal. An agenda.
But you need to do the hard work of actually figuring how to implement them.
Exactly.
Where’s the hard work with the Green New Deal?
The hard work is what we’re doing right now. The Green New Deal is the direction; the agenda. Something to work towards. Getting the right people elected to even scan the agenda is step one. The problems are clear, progressives have them on their radar, right-wing conservatives flatly don’t. Nor for that matter do centrist corporate Democrats.
