Progressives (Liberals)

First, in response to the argument for Medicare for All...

It’s utter avoidance of the common sense plans being advocated by the only candidate who prioritizes humanity.

You advocate time travel to the past.

You advocate ignoring Bernie’s policies because some dickheads don’t like Bernie.

Many of the people who are stiff-necked against the guy with the best plans are undergoing a die-off.

Climate activists have noticed the same thing.

Mona Sigal M.D.Squared sos
@MonaSigal
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I am almost 59 y old.
I am an emergency physician.
I have lived in 4 different countries in my life.

Never ever in my entire life have I HATED another human being as profoundly and deeply as I hate this monster.

Nice try, Shifty, but no dice.

As the coronavirus pandemic escalates around the globe, debate has heated up about how governments and international institutions should respond. Already some surprisingly progressive proposals have been floated – and often from unexpected quarters. It raises the question of whether radical changes to our economic and social systems have been possible all along. And also if they were falsely labelled unworkable because they went against powerful interests.

...change may be hard when you live in comfort, but easy to do when you're afraid to die.

You and other weirdos try to make it about me.

Yes, that's probably the case. I can't help wondering, however, what the response would be if the virus tended to target the young rather than the old, like the swine flu of 2012. I think, if anything, the response would have actually been quicker.

Look at the AIDS pandemic: the politicians didn't care that much at first because they were on the whole not in the disease main casualty demographic.

I’ll see if I can find a sixth grader to tease out the central idea of that paragraph for you.

Nor should we be counting on the death of older voters (and Sanders belongs to this demographic) to help us accomplish something for purely political ends.