Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on "CNN Fawns Over Centrist Democrat" video.

  1. Thanks for your insight.
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  2. Yeah, it's called being a reasonable, rational human being instead of living in a delusional good vs. evil fantasy.
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  3. That's why I currently don't support Medicare for All, and I have quite the list of infrastructure requirements before I'd support it. We can get there, but it will take time to ensure we avoid the pitfalls of the lessons to be learned by other nations who've implemented it first.
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  4.    Or maybe you're so left wing that the center looks right-wing. Rational, reasonable people live in the center and it's where cooler heads prevail. No, you're not going to get everything you want right now. Our system isn't meant for quick changes--and for good reason, but it exists to establish stability first by allowing only for slow change. Turbulent, conflicting currents constantly changing the infrastructure is not a place of stability.
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  5.  @PatrickCervantez  Yes. Please make a third party. Yes. Do it. Do it now.
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  6.    Those first world countries you speak of are Euro-centric/commonwealth nations. White Europeans don't have the market cornered on what civilization must be.
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  7.    Let's back up because my point was that you initially begged the question that these systems of government are good (at least better than what we have). You do mention the OECD (presumably) Better Life Index. However, those ratings assume that the European way of life, politics and worldview is the best. If you have socially-funded healthcare, you get extra points. It doesn't matter what that system accomplishes--it's just assumed that it's better.
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  8. ​   One that you think is better? There probably isn't a better one according to you. There is no objective "better." What we can do is understand the implications and effects of each system. For instance, the US accounts for about half of the entire world's spending on medical research. Of 195 countries, one nation is footing half of that bill. The trillions of dollars that we have flowing through our system is what allows for that. Is that "better?" I would say it's a benefit of our system and the high dollar amounts that flow through it, I wouldn't say our system is better because of it, but it does serve a positive purpose.
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  9.    Most of the research in the US comes from private industry. Last I checked, it was about a 75/25 private/public funding split there. But that just there isn't the point. My point is that you are biased to the system you think is best. You find any reason to reject any information that endangers that bias. I see the good of this system we have in the US and the good of the system you have in other nations. I also see the issues of our system here in the US as well as the issues of your systems there. I don't think that one is inherently better, but they're different and provide a lot of information that we can use to evolve each system along its own lines rather than just trying to shoehorn in one system as some arbitrary better system than all else.
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  10. If polled, I would say that I support Medicare for All. However, that's not the whole story. I don't support any progressive plan on how to get it established and paid for.
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  11. That's the point of a constitutional republic. It's a strong filter for legislation. Fast is the last thing you want. Trust me.
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  12. Both true progressives and both unsurprisingly idiotic.
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  13. "they had created an evil empire" Oh. My. God. Seriously, you should be looking longingly out a foggy window on a rainy day listening to Billie Eilish or something. The melodramatic insanity of this good vs. evil delusional fantasy that so many people are living in right now is quite possibly the most lucid example of mass hysteria I've seen in a very long time.
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  14.  @ErnestoXavier5426  I'm not even sure what you intend to mean by that.
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  15.  @runrafarunthebestintheworld  Because you say so, right? Do you think there an evil party and a good party in the United States?
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  16.  @LeviPageTV  "Yep, wanting to give insurance companies the right to kick people off their insurance with preexisting conditions is EVIL..." Explain how it's evil. "Moreover, a movement that wants to make health care a HUMAN RIGHT is good." Prove it.
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  17.  @LeviPageTV  All claims need explaining. Unless you're good being part of the irrational rabble, then by all means carry on.
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