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✨ Video Curator ✨ @videocurator.bsky.social
Jul 3, 10:28 PM

When the public wants one thing and both party elites want another, it's usually because someone is profiting from the status quo - in this case, pharma money is standing in the way of guaranteed healthcare through Medicare for All. Credit: @abdulelsayed.bsky.social | Source #PoliticsAsUsual

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"When you've got a public consensus, meaning the people all agree with one thing, here, and then a bipartisan consensus, meaning both party elites believe a different thing, the difference is usually somebody's money. So when it comes to Medicare for all, you've got a public consensus that the broad public wants guaranteed health care through their government. But the leaders of both parties will tell you, you can't do it, it's impossible. We can't possibly get there. The difference is pharma money, and health insurance money, and hospital corporation money. Now when the public doesn't want a war, but the elites in both parties seem to be OK with the war, the difference is also somebody's money. And in this case, that money comes from a particular super PAC that has one goal, to make sure that our country of $350 million, that our foreign policy is dictated to us by the government of a foreign country of $10 million. And that super PAC has spent $20 million in this race to beat me. And guess what, we're still whipping their ass."

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✨ Video Curator ✨ @videocurator.bsky.social · Jul 3, 04:12 PM

When the public wants one thing and both party elites want another, it's usually because someone is profiting from the status quo - in this case, pharma money is standing in the way of guaranteed healthcare through Medicare for All. Credit: @abdulelsayed.bsky.social | Source #PoliticsAsUsual