Instead of a legislatively neat universal health care system, like Medicare for all, he pushed a convoluted program of enrichment for health insurance and pharmaceutical companies. His only "innovation" is to use federal law to force people to buy health insurance. The federal government has never before told the people what to buy. What kind of precedent is this? What's next, shoes and socks? He went along with the "bipartisan" corporate bailouts. He continued the Repub Bush's tax cuts for the rich, and the Bush foreign policy, including the "war on terror" and nothing but ICE raids for the twelve million human beings here without a folder full of papers. His new deficit busting budget places the burdens on the helpless, like students and the homeless. As to the needs of ordinary Americans, he has done nothing to stop foreclosures and little to create jobs. Ordinary Americans don't make big campaign contributions.
Open primaries, nonpartisan ballot access laws, objective redistricting, free media time for candidates, and campaigns that are exclusively financed by public funds are some of the process reforms that can produce policy outcomes that genuinely favor the public interest over special interests.
Want something to rebel against in our "home of the brave"? Our money-dominated two-party system election process, the policies of which uniformly favor the class of super rich campaign contributors, is reason enough to fill the streets. There is only one question left -- got guts?
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