Time to break free of traditional political ideological labeling and divisions. Time to abandon old, divisive sociopolitical labels like "liberal" and "conservative".
A new political party based on a vastly, commonly held virtures lends itself to embrace over 66% of Americans, and it clearly embraces progressive principled thinking. In the most ideal American sense of unity, a political party should not be able to be defined or placed as "to the left" or "to the right" of where the Democratic or Republican parties currently are. Just let it exist organically based on present-day principled thinking. The American Progressive Majority.
Originally Posted By u/Atlanticbboy At 2025-03-23 04:38:18 AM | Source
Only a little more than half support Medicare for all? Is this a terminology issue, or are 45% of Americans that terrible?
Sadly there's this idea that Americans are being taxed to death, when in reality not so much.
People don't understand that while we'd pay maybe hundreds more in taxes to fund Single Payer, we'd pay THOUSANDS less in healthcare costs, so we still come out ahead
But I'm not sick or injured right now, so it won't benefit me at this exact second in time, so why would I want this?
Plus my unstable career, where I'm treated as a number rather than a human, is currently paying for my health insurance. So I don't need any government handouts thankyou very much.
Yeah, checkmate commie.
They also don't understand the "they" part. People who don't support, or at least those I've met, don't understand that "they" doesn't mean the government per se. It means you. The individual. You pay more in health care because of defaults on payments. Because of so many other things. The cost of that gets passed on to you. The individual.
People get stuck in the "I got mine" mentality. They don't see the bigger picture. "Why should I pay for someone else's health care!" is what I commonly hear. My dude, you already do. When you point this out. When you give the stats. They usually shut down and it's"
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People just can't seem to grasp the wider picture. I'm not sure they want to. Any issue that requires a wider picture sees the same response. Default to previous operation. Repeat operation.
"Oh no! She's stuck in an infinite loop and he's too stupid to realize it." - Professor F
"Why should I pay for someone else's healthcare."
WEll someone hasn't heard to "Ask not what their country can do for you..." Stupidity breeds selfishness which breeds stupidity
Not to mention which taxpayers the funding would come from, if someone who would actually implement M4A got into power. We likely wouldn't be paying any more at all.
TL;DR people are not good with money. There is no point is arguing finances with people that do not know basic math.
So what the conversation devolves to is "stable" vs "experimental" and very few people will choose to be experimental with their health.
The best way to shift favor would be for it to be required to show the cost of insurance on every check (it is currently a hidden fee). This way, when "hooman see big number" removed from gross pay they may reconsider.
I look forward to being taxed less when we kill off private insurance.