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There is no valid reason for the entire US-led world order not to have been completely dismantled after the invasion of Iraq.
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"Progressives should not push for universal healthcare at this time, they should wait for the next once-in-a-century opportunity like the one being presented right now by this pandemic. I am much more intelligent and mature than you."
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"Now is not the time to push for Medicare for All. First you need to wait until Democrats have a veto-proof supermajority in the House and Senate, then you need to wait until all the Democrats who oppose Medicare for All have been primaried, then you need to wait until a fake MSM-driven antisemitism scandal takes it all away."
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In normal countries opposing universal healthcare is career suicide for any politician in any party; it's impossible to win elections on that platform. The only reason politicians can get away with it in the US is because Americans have never experienced a real healthcare system.
And of course the US is kept different because it is the hub of a globe-spanning empire whose continued existence depends on keeping the local population too poor and propagandized to mobilize politically and stop the war and military expansionism which holds the empire together. An entire empire depends on keeping Americans too poor to compete politically with the plutocratic class which uses its wealth advantage to control the political/media class, and too propagandized to know that things ought to be different. That's the real reason behind all this.
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Shitlibs: "Elect them and then hold their feet to the fire!"
Jimmy Dore: "Here's an idea, let's hold their feet to the fire!"
Shitlibs: "Oh God no don't hold their feet to the fire, you'll burn their feet."
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Give me one loud, profanity-slinging leftist appealing to the people in an interesting and engaging way that everyone can understand over a thousand overeducated snobs putting people to sleep with dry and esoteric Marxist university jargon.
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The revolutionary struggle is ultimately always a battle of movement vs inertia. One side says "We need to move!" and the other side makes clever-sounding arguments for why not moving is actually the better strategy right now. In such debates, the movement side is always correct.
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