cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38203670
Jeff Cohen
Oct 28, 2025This week began with the release of a report titled “Deciding to Win,” claiming to light the way “toward a common sense renewal of the Democratic Party.”
But the first mention of healthcare is so far from reality that the authors might have more accurately titled their report “Deciding to Lie.” The report declares that Medicare for All is in the category of “unpopular economic policies.” The claim is false. But it’s in sync with the corporate sensibilities and wishful thinking of party operatives like James Carville, whose praise of the document appears on its first page.
If they are polling the donor class, then, yeah, it is probably very unpopular with that tiny segment of society.
My favorite talking point against giving access to healthcare to virtually everyone is the one that also tells on itself - “if everyone can get healthcare, that means the demand will outstrip the availability!”
Implicit assumption - it should be priced out of reach of most people so that the “right people”, including myself, have access. Let’s not even think about trying to do anything to address having more providers of healthcare, oh no!
This is also one of those policies where, even if it is something that is not universally popular at first, becomes so once it is entrenched. In Australia there was an ongoing battle with it but once it was embedded in society, it became political suicide to roll it back (although the conservatives have chipped away at it with some success).
So the lesson is to just do the thing because it is obviously superior to the alternatives, and it will become popular quite quickly.
Saying “corporate Democrats” then linking straight to a picture of James Carvel is like old school goatse linking someone. I have a visceral reaction when I see that fucking crypt keeper.
Luckily no one important politically cares what he has to say. But he’ll still say what billionaires want you to hear, and billionaires will keep putting him to be on TV and say it.
Luckily no one important politically cares what he has to say. But he’ll still say what billionaires want you to hear, and billionaires will keep putting him to be on TV and say it.
Centrist apologists will trot his quotes as some kind of “wisdom”.
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