Was this argument not made against Obamacare? Republicans couldn't kill it because Americans don't want to go back to insurance companies telling them they've reached their lifetime spending with them and they're gonna be dropped.
These programs, as half-assed as they are, are a lifeline for an untold number of Americans.
letting a program expire and actively killing it are two different things.
and republicans came within a jon mccain thumbs down away from grievously harming obama care.
if you think they'll have trouble sitting on their hand passively letting programs expire.
programs that might not even be popular...
i think that's fantasy
I work with Trump voters who believe that he supports the American worker and actually wanted to bring back 1950s-style manufacturing here, even though everything he makes comes from China.
They're that stupid.
the contempt you have for your fellow american...
I think yes people are busy and they don't know the details of global trade
I don't think west virginians think they are voting for universal basic income when they elect republican supermajorities.
Other than going up or down, the only direction left will be where the blue dog Democrats sit, and
Sorry, but you just don't understand what the status quo means in this country then.
I fail to see comfort in people's eyes when they have to pay the equivalent of mortgages to send kids to childcare, have to incur five-six figure debts to get educated, and when they cancel medical procedures because they can't pay for them even with insurance.
my opinion isn't relevant.
im going by what americans choose.
and judging by what they choose.
I don't see this burning desire for massive alterations in the welfare state.
moderate politicians perform better than ideologically extreme ones.
Donald Trump doesn't win if he doesn't moderate on social security and cutting medicare.
do nothing republican governors who basically preserve the status quo are wildly popular.
when blue states try to do stuff like single payer like vermont, it crashes and burns
and then a republican governor gets elected.
cling to these issue polls if you want.
but id look at them with a pretty jaundice eye given electoral outcomes.