Michigan Democratic Party chair Curtis Hertel made it crystal clear on Sunday that Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) was no longer welcome in the state’s Democratic party.
Hertel posted to X after Stevens yanked her support from Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) and gave it to his Republican challenger, “Congresswoman Stevens is not a current member of the Michigan Democratic Party, nor will she be in the future.”
The answer for my entire lifetime was “play nice with republicans”. It’d be cool if that changed though.
Yeah, that’s unfortunately kinda been the winning one my entire life.
And I don’t get it, Republicans NEVER play ball. There is no amount of compromise you can do that will make a Republican move a centimeter to the left.
The Affordable Care Act twisted itself into pretzels trying to appease the Right and in the end passed without a single Republican vote
Ultimately triangulation just allows the dems to justify to their voters why they aren’t doing what the voters want, and instead doing what their donors want. Its always been electorally dumb, hence why you never see republicans use it.
I don’t believe it is a conspiracy so much as a system where politicians who bring in more money have more influence and are surrounded by staffers who get filtered by income and ideology.
The second there’s a Democratic majority (Though I doubt we will ever see that again the Overton Window shifted too far to the rightt)
I better see talks about Medicare for all
M4A is the compromise. The best system is what Cuba is what Cuba built, failing that what Britain had before the Tories got to it.
What did Cuba build?
They have more doctors per capita than any other country, a longer life expectancy than America, more accessable healthcare (even rural areas get clinics, doctors are required to do x years in rural communities in exchange for free medical school) and regularly develop effective vaccines for types of cancer and recently, a treatment for alzheimers.
They do this while under a blockade from a superpower right nextdoor. Imagine what a country with first-world resources could do.
They do not have vaccines for cancer, come on now.
They have developed vaccines for some types of lung cancer and other cancers IIRC.