Gabbard is at best a shady opportunist.

These posts are amazing because you have people admitting profit and wealth accumulation has screwed up American health care, but they reject out of hand the one thing that would deal with in that in favor of some unnamed set of regulations that somehow do the things single payer would. It’s so fascinating the way…

This is a strikingly dishonest take on single payer. The buying power of 1 million people is still far lower than most insurance companies. The buying power of 320 million people will do much more to drive down prices and it will be funded with *the dollars we already spend on private insurance and out of pocket on…

Not everyone “wants a successful business.” This conflation of a good living (having your material needs met) with making a profit (collecting excess unendingly) is why we can’t deal with the actual problems capitalism causes.

“Single payer is good and profit in the medical industry is bad, but the real answer isn’t single payer even though it would eliminate profit from the health insurance system” is one hell of a needle-threading take.

Not a single thing that addresses material concerns, which are a pillar of actual leftist politics, but instead a list of things liberals want already. So no, there’s no compromise there.

This is true, but they didn’t have the stomach to do it when they had decades to spare either.

Considering that the rich have accrued a disproportionate amount of wealth over the last 40 or so years both through cut taxes and squeezing labor as public spending is cut back, it really is as simple as taking wealth back from the rich. Not easy, but simple.

How do you want to pay for [Medicare for All]? Tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend.

All revenue is attributable to labor. All of it.

What was their track record on predicting the last recession?

One more comment on MBAs: They were created to give high-level corporate executives enough knowledge to communicate with and understand multiple departments in a large, complex organization. It’s why most programs are targeted toward the already employed. If your ambition is to climb the corporate ladder (and…

If centrists were as against purity and in favor of compromise as they claimed, they’d be eagerly engaging the left who are offering them a voting bloc sizable enough to keep the right in check especially after what happened in 2016.

A basic understanding of accounting and a little finance and marketing are fine. Community college classes would probably be enough and a lot of successful business owners I’ve known don’t even have that.

You don’t need an MBA to run a small business and that’s a waste of money if you intend to use it that way.

If I said I was from a coast, you’d have lectured me that I don’t get it because I don’t live there, even though the dynamic you’re describing (rural vs. suburban. vs. urban) isn’t unique to the Midwest and is still an oversimplification of what the interests of people in those places are. It also not a particularly…

In light of machine learning and automation, there simply may not be enough jobs to go around, so selling kids on the idea they simply need to retrain themselves constantly may not work. “Employers” don’t really care about giving people jobs, certainly don’t have a duty to so, and are happy to eliminate them if it…

Not for Republicans, whom I might add have been successful seizing and using power to their ends.

Somewhere else.

For every single day of my life.