You don’t need to be progressive to understand “free healthcare”, and “free healthcare” polls better than “subsidies for insurance companies”. “Free college” polls better than “means-tested forgiveness for STEM grads who operate a business in an underserved neighborhood for 5 years”. The great thing about left policy is that you don’t need to trick people or gauge people’s political positions and try to match them against a 5 dimensional chart, you’re simply using the tools available to improve people’s material conditions and people will vote for it because the alternative is immediately worsening conditions. Look at europe, public healthcare is so popular even the conservatives need to pretend to support it.
I wish you were right. America is VERY different from Europe though. Republicans don’t even pretend to support any of this – not sure where you got that.
“A healthcare plan is coming” and never present it is nowhere near “We’re going to give you free healthcare”. If they said that, most of their base would not vote.
In fact, you might argue a factor that re-elected Obama was that Romney was a candidate that had introduced something like Obamacare in MA. A ton of Republicans hated him specifically for that.
You don’t need to be progressive to understand “free healthcare”, and “free healthcare” polls better than “subsidies for insurance companies”. “Free college” polls better than “means-tested forgiveness for STEM grads who operate a business in an underserved neighborhood for 5 years”. The great thing about left policy is that you don’t need to trick people or gauge people’s political positions and try to match them against a 5 dimensional chart, you’re simply using the tools available to improve people’s material conditions and people will vote for it because the alternative is immediately worsening conditions. Look at europe, public healthcare is so popular even the conservatives need to pretend to support it.
I wish you were right. America is VERY different from Europe though. Republicans don’t even pretend to support any of this – not sure where you got that.
“A healthcare plan is coming” and never present it is nowhere near “We’re going to give you free healthcare”. If they said that, most of their base would not vote.
In fact, you might argue a factor that re-elected Obama was that Romney was a candidate that had introduced something like Obamacare in MA. A ton of Republicans hated him specifically for that.