Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "WATCH: Pelosi Argues For Floor Vote On Single Payer In 1994" video.

  1. FROM THE TRANSCRIPT AT 0:26 "it is interesting to see how under scrutiny when people really take the look at these bills how brilliantly the single-payer plan stands out" The highlight is mine and I deleted the 2 "uhs" to make what she said clear.
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  2.  @mrsandmrbutterfly  You might like this if you dislike Citizens United. It was first posted by someone else a while back. Its truly awesome in that it was written 2 years before Trump was even born and yet it describes this moment perfectly. It was written by someone who saw the destruction brought by people lie Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin and it also means American's like Trump have been around for some time. (edit) the highlights are mine. Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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  3. FROM THE TRANSCRIPT AT 0:26 "it is interesting to see how under scrutiny when people really take the look at these bills how brilliantly the single-payer plan stands out" The highlight is mine and I deleted the 2 "uhs" to make what she said clear.
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  4. FROM THE TRANSCRIPT AT 0:26 "it is interesting to see how under scrutiny when people really take the look at these bills how brilliantly the single-payer plan stands out" The highlight is mine and I deleted the 2 "uhs" to make what she said clear.
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  5.  @desmondbrown5508  Dude humanity has been a for-profit society since we discovered gold and diamonds, what makes you think it will change anytime.
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  6.  @boneseyyl1060  Your absolutely right and I have argued those very points a lot during the 18 or so months. I studied both 1984 and Animal Farm in high school. I hated 1984, as a 16year old it was just ghastly, but thanks to Trump its useful. I have mentioned the French, Russian, Cambodian and American revolutions often. They all have one thing in common in that they were fundamentally peasant revolutions as in the farmers, & laborers rose up and threw of regimes that operated in absolute terms. Most Americans disagree that the American Revolution was a peasant revolution like others because America is a very right orientated nation, but if you look at what they were against and why the Bill of Rights has what it has and is what it is the American Revolution was fundamentally a revolt against right wing totalitarian rule. There's actually a good example of it in the film "last of the Mohicans" where the colonel Munro's daughter argues with about the fate of Hawkeye who's been condemned to hand for sedition. She said "you haven't given him a trail" ha basically answered. "I'm the kings representative and my word is absolute. He went against my word, that's sedition and he'll hang." Sadly most revolutions end up replacing one bad thing with something worse. The French let Robespierre lose and he gave them the "Reign of Terror." The Russians got rid of the Czar and got Stalin. China, North Korea its the same story again and again. Human politics really is a place of "wash-rinse-repeat". America nearly broke that cycle with the Constitution and for 240 years (1776-2016) that had it. I actually think (even as an Australian) that the US Constitution is one of the greatest achievements in human history. Every other constitution has baggage like ours is full of old British crap. The founding fathers were brilliant in all they did except for 1 thing. The y never considered that Mitch McConnell would exist. The House runs the Country, The Whitehouse is the executive and the Senate is there to CHECK that the other 2 are doing things in a proper way. Look at what's happened since McConnell got unlimited power and subverted what the Senates job is. The Supreme Court has been undermined, the rest of the judiciary has been undermined and since Trump was let off from his impeachment without even a wave of a finger he's been out of control and its cost 1000s and 1000s of lives. I really do hope America gets past this without too much damage.
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  7. FROM THE TRANSCRIPT AT 0:26 "it is interesting to see how under scrutiny when people really take the look at these bills how brilliantly the single-payer plan stands out" The highlight is mine and I deleted the 2 "uhs" to make what she said clear.
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  8. FROM THE TRANSCRIPT AT 0:26 "it is interesting to see how under scrutiny when people really take the look at these bills how brilliantly the single-payer plan stands out" The highlight is mine and I deleted the 2 "uhs" to make what she said clear.
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  9. FROM THE TRANSCRIPT AT 0:26 "it is interesting to see how under scrutiny when people really take the look at these bills how brilliantly the single-payer plan stands out" The highlight is mine and I deleted the 2 "uhs" to make what she said clear.
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  10.  George W Biden  Well done you got a 5,7,5 Haiku 👍👍
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  11.  @boneseyyl1060  If you like Last of the Mohicans here's a couple very different renditions of the part of the soundtrack which I love. Both very different but both brilliant in there own right. Orchestra El-Dorado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U_tDZaP57Q Leo Rojas, Indogenes and others do similar flute versions. The American Rogues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6G8TXaKkF0 There's this brilliant extended version of "I will follow" by Clannard. Its only ~2:00 on the soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0np-5xbkus
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