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In reply to the discussion: William Rivers Pitt: Coward-in-Chief: Trump Wilts in the Face of Fascist Terrorism [View all]still_one
(98,883 posts)facts. Even when he was informed of that, he keep that OP alive for over a year, and made subsequent anti-Obama and Hillary posts. Sorry, but Pitt is a jerk, and that is NOT a recrimination, that is a fact.
The stakes were never higher than they were in 2016, and any self-identified progressives who refused to vote for the Democratic nominee I will NEVER forget or forgive.
Sarandon was recently interviewed by one of the late night talk hosts, and she was spewing about how trump would bring about "their so-called revolution".
What their "revolution" accomplished was that every Democrat running for Senate in those critical swing states, lost to the establishment, incumbent, republican, because some believed the LIES that there was no difference between the republicans and the Democrats.
Noam Chomsky said it best, progressives who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton made a bad mistake
I think they [made] a bad mistake, said Chomsky, who reiterated that its important to keep a greater evil from obtaining power, even if youre not thrilled with the alternative. I didnt like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better than Trumps on every issue I can think of.
Chomsky also attacked the arguments made by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who argued that Trumps election would at least shake up the system and provide a real rallying point for the left.
[Zizek makes a] terrible point, Chomsky told Hasan. It was the same point that people like him said about Hitler in the early 30s
hell shake up the system in bad ways.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/noam-chomsky-progressives-who-refused-to-vote-for-hillary-clinton-made-a-bad-mistake/
Pitt's fan club is over at JPR, where the majority of those other self-identified progressives also refused to vote for Hillary.
As for Single Payer, it couldn't pass. THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE VOTES. The blue dogs made it clear
they would NOT vote for it, and they needed every vote to get something passed. There was no leeway.
They had a limited time to pass it, or have nothing.
As for those who want to blame President Obama for the high insurance rates, what is their context? Which states are they in? Did their states expand Medicaid? Were they entitled to a subsidy? How much of those increased rates is due to their state's implementation of the exchanges, and unwillingness to make it work? I could go on, but without details there is no point.
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