Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Politics are Polarized, But Not for the Reason You Think | Robert Reich" video.

@youtubesucks1499 In the short term, it might be 12.5%, but with people actually getting health care early on, before things get serious, you'd see the cost go down to something more in line with what other developed countries pay. None of the countries with universal health care spend the amount of money that we do on health care. But they all get better results for the money.
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I think what should blow people's mind is that with a super-majority in congress, our allegedly left-wing President was only able to get us a health care reform that was to the right of what Nixon wanted to give us back in the '70s. There's only a handful of left-wing politicians left these days and none of them have any power.
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A lot of this comes from news media abandoning any effort at being objective callers of balls and strikes. Sure, they usually failed at it, but there was at least an effort to do so. Now, they go for "fair and balanced" ignoring the fact that on many issues there is one side that's clearly more right than the other. For example, voting rights, the environment and those forever wars. It's objectively wrong that there's a significant issue with voter fraud, that climate change isn't primarily driven by humans and that those forever wars serve no legitimate purpose and are frequently illegal. There's not much room for debate there, but the right gets equal time to push those views.
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Yep, he's definitely worse than Nixon and probably only Pierce and Buchannon were worse. Even then, they were only worse because they preceded the Civil War. And we still haven't had a civil war resulting from Reagan's rank corruption and incompetence as a leader.
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