More Than 90% of Democratic Voters Want 2020 Candidate to Make Climate Action and Medicare for All..

[guillaumeb]

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More Than 90% of Democratic Voters Want 2020 Candidate to Make Climate Action and Medicare for All Top Priorities: Poll

From the article:

The global climate crisis and Medicare for All are top issues for a large majority of Democratic voters, according to new polling results published Tuesday by CNN.
The survey (pdf), conducted last week, asked Democrats and left-leaning Independents how important they considered certain policy items.
Most people polled said it is somewhat or very important that the Democratic candidate for president in 2020 support party priorities like stricter gun laws, tuition-free public college, impeaching President Donald Trump, paying reparations to slaves' descendants, and restoring voting rights for all convicted felons.

But two issues stood out at the top.

To read more:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/30/more-90-democratic-voters-want-2020-candidate-make-climate-action-and-medicare-all?cd-

These are winning issues. And climate change is truly an existential crisis.

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread guillaumeb.

[guillaumeb]

2. These 2 issues, in my view, are both winning issues fro the people,

and the planet that we live on.

There are different paths to getting to Medicare for all, from a staged (by age group) buy in, to an immediate option to buy in for all ages.

But climate change, if it is not addressed, will make everything else inadequate.

[Uncle Joe]

4. I agree on all counts.

The Republicans for all their wealth are bankrupt on these issues.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

8. That's why we should choose a forward looking revolutionary candidate, over a back to normalcy one.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[guillaumeb]

11. In my view, both of these issues appeal to voters from both parties.

Climate change and health are not revolutionary issues, or should not be.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

16. These ideas are revolutionary in that they involve significant change...

I agree that they have mass appeal... but, that's more a sign of the times and how dramatically our country and the world need to see those ideas implemented. That, however, doesn't detract from their revolutionary nature.


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[guillaumeb]

18. True, in that sense.

And the most revolutionary aspect is separating profit from the health care equation. The health of people should not be treated as secondary to making huge profits, or any profits.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

25. Precisely... think we're pretty much on the same page.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[JDC]

3. I am in that 90%

[guillaumeb]

6. As am I. eom

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

9. Abso-fuckin-lutely!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[Demsrule86]

5. Not true.

Polls show only 17 % want Medicare for all If workplace insurance goes away

[guillaumeb]

7. Please continue. eom

[guillaumeb]

19. But if it were to be offered as an option,

people could choose. And the sub par plans would lose.

[Celerity]

10. Medicare for those who WANT it is a winner, MFA with no exceptions is a Sanderite LOSER

Sorry to burst the Bernie bubble, but that is just the reality in 2019 America.

[guillaumeb]

12. I agree.

Make it an option, but first, fix the designed in deficiencies.

[Celerity]

15. +1

That stance (that he said fuck the ACA, he wont support it, it it is all or nothing, and will not even support the ACA OR a public option) is why I am 100% anti-Bernie.

[guillaumeb]

17. Understood.

Canada did not immediately move from private insurance to single payer.

But as provinces changed, it was obvious how much better single payer is.

[Celerity]

20. I FULLY belive single payer is the best solution, but in the reactionary, dullard USA, we need

to move incrementally. I say dullard because SO MANY stupid lemming rotters follow this axiom from from LBJ

[guillaumeb]

21. Racism is built into the foundation of oppression. eom

[Celerity]

22. +1

[redstateblues]

26. Medicare buy in makes sense

Forcing people to lose their current insurance is political suicide

[msongs]

13. that's only 90 percent of the people surveyed in this poll nt

[guillaumeb]

14. True, that is how polling is conducted.

And, I must confess that I was not personally asked.

[marybourg]

23. I wonder what language that headline was translated from. Nt

[guillaumeb]

24. I did not write it.

Newspaper English is a sub-dialect of English.

[marybourg]

27. I know that. I looked at the link.That headline, though is not

the usual string of nouns that passes for a sentence in newspaper headline writing. That headline was written by a non-speaker of english, perhaps with the help of google translate. I didn’t mean to imply that you wrote it. Sorry.

[Omaha Steve]

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