Sanders, Perez unity tour is off to a bumpy start

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57. Because you can't make everything the top priority. There is only 100% to give.

But throwing social justice issues and women's reproductive health on the back burner in the service of what one Senator thinks is the economic plan that will make everything else "right" is not an option.

Single Payer was defeated in Colorado in November, and failed in Vermont. Until there is some analysis on lessons learned, and you can get the white working class male nationalists in this country to magically not hate and despise all things big government, expanding the ACA is the closest thing we have to universal health care - and right now that's on life support, and needs CPR, not repeal. By the way - Medicare is not single payer, most developed countries achieve universal health care coverage in multi-payer systems, and Canada didn't get federal single payer until all the provinces did so independently over a period of 20 years, then a very liberal adminstration made it a federal payer in 1964, and it was still being tweaked and developed in 1999. So we're not going to get single payer like Canada did, and certainly not in the space of even two administrations. OK?

So, yeah, sometimes you grab the low hanging fruit, because there is no ladder. That's not selling out, that's just doing what is possible with what you have.

Right now, yes, many of those things are being dismantled. The fact that we are fighting fires in many different places does not mean that we have given up on building that brand new city.

But to call anyone that isn't working on that brand new city right now in the midst of an all out battle to save even our government agencies "Corporate shills" or "Progressives in Name only" is shooting ourselves in the foot.