One of my wife's MAGA siblings is giddy at the prospect that reparations will

[redstateblues]

Be part of the Democratic platform. That and outlawing employer based health insurance. However you feel about those two issues both of those are losers for us in the General.

[Freethinker65]

1. Medicare buy in option is a winning issue. Especially as Trump continues to dismantle the ACA.

Republicans/Independents also have pre-existing conditions, like their birth control, and have offspring under 26 years old that otherwise would have no insurance.

Reparations, like Medicare for all (I prefer making it a buy in option), needs to be explained and defined by Democrats before Republicans litter the airways and media with disinformation.

[Turin_C3PO]

2. Luckily

Democrats don’t decide their platform based on what MAGATs want. I doubt reparations will be on it. Medicare 4 All could be if Warren is the nominee. She’ll need to explain it and she’s good at that.

[UniteFightBack]

4. Oh yes explaining Med 4 all and we're taking away your insurance to Americans will be a snap.

[Turin_C3PO]

9. I don't think she'll

end up saying she’d outlaw it. I’m sure it would remain an option if people wanted it, but the point would be to make Medicare attractive enough that people will choose it over private insurance.

In any case, I think Biden’s likely to win so this discussion is purely academic.

[marylandblue]

11. I looked at Warren's past comments and she said America is not ready for

full Medicare 4 All and said she would take "baby steps" towards it. I think that's a reasonable position that can be fleshed out in a non-threatening way.

[Blue_true]

14. My guess is that if Warren is the nominee, she will go for the Medicare

Public Option and leave private health insurance alone to let it wilt on the vine. She is a lot less doctrinaire and more practical than Senator Sanders. She will have a winning message on healthcare, IMO.

[UniteFightBack]

3. And decriminalizing the border...total general election loser. Wow those Dems REALLY ARE for 'open

borders'. I get a headache when I think about this.

[DesertRat]

5. I'm glad that Dems don't decide our platform based on what MAGAt's want. nt

[EffieBlack]

6. Thank you!

[redstateblues]

10. It's a losing issue in the General

[Indygram]

7. Reparations doesn't necessarily involve money

It DOES include being 100% HONEST about the racism that is interwoven into every aspect of society, though. That very difficult conversation MUST be had. Once it is then we can get to actual change and true equality. Now I would support any individual convicted of a hate crime having all of their assets seized just like drug dealers and then have that money go into a trust fund that is used to help the victim as well as the group their hate targeted. Reparations could look something like that. The main point is to REPAIR the problem.

[Blue_true]

15. We have to get serious as a society about holding people responsible for

Anti-social conduct. Racism is anti-social conduct and when a person has been found to have discriminated, that person should suffer a penalty such as loss of a job or office. If we get enough cases where discriminatory people suffer, we will see racism and sexism vanish from our society.

[tishaLA]

8. Ask him or her how Mexico paying for the wall is going

And then get back to us

[rpannier]

12. One of your wife's

That certainly is an entire country alright

[dalton99a]

13. "Free money for black people" is what they will hear

and they will crawl through broken glass to vote against it

[Blue_true]

18. That is how it will be framed.

I personally think that reparations, if it involves money is a bad idea. Fixing the criminal justice system and expunging felony convictions for minor offenses, along with meaningful job skills training is a much better path. We should also have a zero tolerance policy toward police misconduct, we should push for people that have excellent deescalation skills and sound judgement becoming police officers, we should have routine evaluation standards to insure those people maintain those skills. We should work toward a diverse teaching force, provide racial sensitivity training and routinely reevaluate every teacher, and we should pay them a lot more money, their jobs are very critical to society.

[pansypoo53219]

16. employer insurance makes us less competitive vs europe. lower wages AND a decades old holdover.

needs to die like daylight savings time.

[myohmy2]

17. she's...

...giddy for a reason, reparations would hand trump a huge club to beat us with...a real us/them catastrophic issue...

...I actually support reparations, but put it in a bill in the middle of the night after we take control...

...trump would push every racist button in the book and would further succeed at dividing the electorate...

...outlawing employer based health insurance, I'm not so sure...

...it would depend on what replaced it and how it was funded...

...pukes have no credibility on healthcare...

...

[JoeOtterbein]

19. Or would reparations help boost the economy in places where the descendants live?

Yes!

[yaesu]

20. I could care less what a fascist pig MAGA believes. nt