"FOR GODS SAKE stop the nonsense of raging over whether there is a public option

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

or Medicare for all as a primary voting issue, or whether someone is a “corporate democrat” or a “socialist”. None of that matters this time. We are IN this position because idiots...
14...did not recognize what was at stake in 2016, played silly games about “both sides are equally bad.” This is the same game that was played in the German federal elections in 1932, where people voting for the “can’t win” candidate gave enormous power to Hitler...
15...just three years later, Hitler declared a national emergency, dissolved the legislature and called for new elections. And soon after that, the “protest candidate and his supporters were locked up."

Some perspective from Kurt Eichenwald at: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1190367840454533120.html

[jberryhill]

1. It's stupid beyond words

Any plan needs to pass Congress and will be utterly reworked in the process. We don’t have a parliamentary system where the ruling party simply proceeds with a legislative program.

Beyond “these are the kinds of things I’d push for” there’s no reason to behave as if any particular detailed program proposed by any of them would become a reality anyway.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. All the angels dancing on the head of the health care pin are driving me nuts.

None of these plans have the slightest chance of making it intact (or recognizable) through the congressional meat grinder, and it's beyond disingenuous to pretend they do.

[spooky3]

5. I agree with both of you. Nt

[BlueMTexpat]

7. This. Exactly this.

We need to make sure that a strong Dem is elected President and that we ALL work hard to ensure that whoever that Dem is gets a Dem majority in BOTH houses.

That is our task!

[msongs]

4. yes lets avoid issues that might cost us the presidency. no prob nt

[Cha]

6. Mahalo, for Kurt Eichenwald, TVO!

[betsuni]

8. "We are IN this position because idiots did not recognize what was at stake in 2016 ... ."

IDIOTS. Too many idiots.