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.
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.