2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: All the sudden sanders wants obamacare saved. [View all]zentrum
(9,866 posts)You wanted to know what was the difference.
Even if HRC had wonsingle payer, public option, medicare for all was never her platform. It was for Bernie. That. is. the. difference.
If we'd had a candidate who could have kept the Blue Wall intact, and who had coattails and I think we all know that we had a candidate who couldn't do thatwe'd have a congress and a court that could allow single payer, public option, medicare for all. And Bernie would have gone for it full-tilt. All out. He'd have fought like hell for it. Not an Obamacare tweak. But a full public option medicare for all.
Now he can only salvage what he can for us. Thank God he's there.
The difference is that he was always for these programs and HRC was only tentatively for them in the last few months. Bernie is reduced to saving Obamacare only because Trump won. Not because that was his secret position all along as you imply.
So you do not do nuance. Or face the situation the election has put us in. You only want to find a non-issue about Bernie Sanders. Got it.