Why I left the Democratic Party

Save your thanks for the DNC, for cheating voters out of their primary choice.

Every week, the differences between Trump and Hillary Clinton get more and more obvious. Hillary would never have responded to White Supremacist violence by condemning "violence on every side".

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is backing Bernie Sanders' plan for single-payer health care, which also goes by the name "Medicare for All."

"There is something fundamentally wrong when one of the richest and most powerful countries on the planet can't make sure that a person can afford to see a doctor when they're sick," Warren wrote in an email to supporters on Thursday. "This isn't any way to live."

Warren said she is co-sponsoring Sanders' Medicare for All bill, slated to be introduced later this month, and she asked supporters to sign a petition in support of the measure.

"Medicare for All" and single payer health care have been topics of debate within the Democratic Party, as progressives have repeatedly mounted pushes for the measure.

Opponents have criticized government-run health care as a potentially expensive proposal and questioned how effective it would be.

Details of the Sanders proposal were not immediately available.

Warren is up for re-election in 2018. She is considered in some political circles a potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

Sanders, a socialist from Vermont, ran as a Democrat in the 2016 presidential election, losing the nomination to Hillary Clinton.

In her email to supporters, Warren praised the federal Affordable Care Act, noting that now insurance companies can't deny people with pre-existing conditions and people can stay on their parents' insurance until they're 26 years old.

"But there's so much more we could do right now to bring down the costs of quality health care for every American. We could start by ending health insurance company price gouging - ending high deductibles, surprise bills, and endless fights with insurance companies over coverage for critical medical procedures or out-of-pocket costs," Warren wrote. "We could also cut the cost of prescription drugs by importing drugs from Canada, where the same prescription can sometimes cost far less than in the US."

According to Warren, Medicare for All is "one way that we can give every single person in the country access to high quality health care."

Warren predicted insurance and drug companies will oppose the measure. "The American people have made it clear that they believe health care is a basic human right - but it will be a tough fight," she added

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said Wednesday that Democrats are ready to fight with Republicans over tax reform legislation.

"This is going to be one of the biggest fights of the next three, four months, and Democrats are ready for it," Schumer told reporters on a conference call held by a left-leaning group organized to oppose tax cuts for high earners, according to the Washington Examiner.

Earlier this month, 45 of 48 Senate Democrats signed a letter to President Donald Trump and GOP leaders demanding that they not support any bill that gives new breaks to the wealthiest Americans or adds to the deficit.

Schumer warned Wednesday that if the Republican tax reform plan lowers rates for the wealthy, "the American people are going to rise up against it."

His comments came the same day that Trump is traveling to Missouri to begin a public campaign for tax reform. Trump is expected to describe his plan as a benefit to middle-class workers that will create a more favorable tax system for American businesses to compete with global competitors.

Trump is seeking a simpler tax code, including middle-class tax cuts, to push for more job creation.

But Trump's chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, said that the bulk of the responsibility is on Congress, not the president, to pass tax reform.

"At the end of the day, tax legislation has to happen in Congress and the House," Cohn told the Financial Times last week. "The Ways and Means Committee will be drafting legislation and we will be on the road and holding meetings in Washington and elsewhere explaining why it is so important to have tax reform in America."

Rep. Kevin Brady (R., Texas), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has said that Trump will play an essential role in the legislative process to overhaul the country's tax system.

"You can't do this without presidential leadership," Brady said earlier this month. "My sense of President Trump, he's all in on tax reform."

The Florida 26th congressional district tends to lean Democratic, and has been identified as a Mid-term target for national Democratic strategists in 2018. But having prominent local DNC-friendly operatives hosting the event or on the guest list highlights just how much the establishment Democrats seems willing to push back against the surge of progressives within its ranks who supported Bernie Sanders in his 2016 presidential bid.
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You've obviously abdicated your political autonomy.

You have to support one crook to prove you don't support the other.

**** that. I refuse to vote for a piece of **** to beat another piece of ****.

I'm voting for no more ****.