Patriotism is love of country and its people

The Pledge is just the most obvious piece of American propaganda. Americans are a deeply indoctrinated, subservient people.

So then why is Chuck Schumer making any concessions at all? And why would I, a person who wants to stop these appointments, trust Democrats who won’t even put up a token fight do that if they hold a majority?

You don’t understand that telling all those people “Fuck all y’all” doesn’t persuade them? Has someone angrily and rudely telling you to “fuck off” ever gotten you to do what they want?

Damning with faint praise.

Your original point was that people “all of a sudden want to act dumb” so which is it?

I appreciate that just yesterday you made a post about winning Senate seats in “flyover country” and I’m curious as to how you square reflexively screaming with contempt at every person who didn’t vote Democrat with that goal.

Add in the Senate and SCOTUS and I’ll bring the bulldozer.

Nobody is acting dumb, but you pretending you’re the only smart person in the room is just smug.

It’s worth nothing that these judges require Senate approval and Schumer has been very conciliatory toward Trump allowing whatever picks he wants.

Moreover, considering that costs to provide care something include charging people $20 to use a blanket or $10 for an aspirin, a single entity buying all of those products could bring them down to a cost actually on par with the market. You can’t leave that out of any discussion of “underpayment.”

Paying 88% of billed costs does not mean doctors are not receiving enough income to live.

The use of the filibuster had been rising steadily since the 1970's and the presidents have needed to bend or change the rules to pass ambitious legislation in the past (the filibuster was most notably used against the Civil Rights Act), so it was foreseeable a Republican minority would use it against him.

Single payer would cap profits (at zero, where they should be because there’s no need for the industry to profit, it just needs to cover costs of the people who provide actual services), restructure the insurance industry for efficiency (one entity processing payments instead of many), and lower the costs of doing…

Well, he was a senator for four years and no doubt had presidential aspirations for most of them. Clearing the way to implement bolder legislation by eliminating the filibuster would have been a savvy move on his part, but he never really followed through with that level of ambition.

While Obama couldn’t have done it as president, ending the fillibuster—a practice that while revered as some sort of sacred tradition is only about 100 years old, not part of the Constitution (and probably not intended to be), and was created purely for political purposes—would have enabled a ton of more aggressive…

The ACA was passed prior to the 2010 midterms when Democrats had clear majorities in both the House and Senate. It was Democrats who watered down health care reform.

When a right wing think tank inadvertently admits single payer will save money, you know it’s a good deal.

But the thing is you don’t have a solution either. You don’t even have a slogan!

A single national buyer would be able to dictate lower prices on the medical side of the house. Nothing in that article you provided refutes that. In fact, the conclusion of the article is idiotic: “We can’t adopt a system that would demonstrably lower costs because costs are already too high. So we have to keep the…