Comments by "Jeremy Barlow" (@jeremybarlow2291) on "Tulsi Gabbard Abandons Medicare-For-All" video.

  1. keis Farrow he literally can’t. He would need to petition now in most states to get on the ballot.
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  2. Jimmy’s Top issue is peace. Number two for Jimmy is Medicare for All. At least that has always been my read.
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  3. Greg Popabich Dennis Kucinich also from Ohio is my choice. Like Bernie I know he will never be in their side against us. They literally tried to kill Dennis 3 times in the 1970s because he was too much of a pro-working class mayor of Cleveland.
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  4. Jonathan West the head of the Flight Attendant’s Union supports Medicare for All and said the workers in her union want the wages that Sanders bill delivers. Every dollar of cost savings to a company from the switch to Medicare for All must be paid in higher wages to employees under the bill. You can actually read it. Also she said this when GM took away UAW strikers’ healthcare. The greatest impediment to union organizing and. power is the fact that healthcare has been tied to employment. There is no “choice” in healthcare it’s a bullshit talking point of corporate spin doctors. A so called public option would in fact cost dramatically more than the current system while Medicare for All would reduce costs. Why? For exactly the reasons spelled out in this video. The insurance company would maximize profits by dumping their expensive patients into the public pool and they will take the profitable health patients. That is what they did in the 1960s when Medicare was created. There is a reason only the elderly and disabled are in the pool. There is a reason the companion Medicaid was created too, the poor can’t pay premiums, and if they are sick with communicable disease that could make the insurance company’s profit centers -which is how they describe their clientele, sick and that would cost them money. We have a system designed to protect private profits, not health.
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  5. keis Farrow well because literally to get on the ballot in most states as a third-Party candidate ie independent he has to complete petitioning in about half of all states THIS YEAR. Howie Hawkins of the Greens is petitioning in Arizona right now, Oklahoma, and several other states because the deadline is before December to get on the ballot as a third-Party candidate. If he were to petition -Bernie that is, for an independent line he would be barred by DNC rules from participating in the Democratic Primary. Do you understand now? There are laws which govern this process and they are designed to keep third-party candidates off the ballot. You need to gather like 50,000 signatures in many states to get on the ballot which means that after the Democrats and Republicans challenge your petitions, you actually need 100,000 signatures in some f those states to get on the ballot. Do you understand now? Also in about half of the states if you participate in the primary of another party YOU ARE BARRED BY LAW FROM RUNNING ON ANOTHER PARTY LINE.
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  6. Nwamaka Okobi if you have a job there is no choice either. You get who your employer chooses.
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  7. Lexort 420 Bernie is as far left as the Democrats will go. In many safely blue states the better option to push Democrats left will be the likely Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins.
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  8. Howie Hawkins of the Green Party will be running and Howie is for an NHS system. If he won they might negotiate him down to Medicare for All and he came up with the Green New Deal only a bolder version, when he ran for NY Governor in 2010. He is working to get on the ballot in all fifty states right now and is the likely Green Party nominee.
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  9. TCt83067695 I knew from the second it all started that there would be a mountain of Fauxgressives, a mountain of corporatists and Bernie. I didn’t expect Mike Gravel the only legit progressive other than Bernie to run. I would have been happy if Dennis Kucinich had gotten in to throw a few punches to help Bernie out, but I knew it was basically Bernie from the start. I held out hope Gabbard would prove me wrong, but she didn’t. In my lifetime the only progressives in the House were Kucinich, Cynthia McKinney, and Sanders. Everyone else has to earn their stripes by gaining the right enemies. If they try to redistrict AOC out of office I might believe she is legit, but her record thus far leads me to believe she is a fauxgressive too.
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  10. This is a good reason Dennis Kucinich or Nina Turner are the only acceptable VP nominees, except in the event Ralph Nader was somehow persuaded to run.
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  11. Sir Spamalot as does funding the military. I can’t check a box on the tax form saying not one penny to the DOD, CIA, or NSA.
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  12. Christian Vennemann why would anyone in NY or California not vote for the Green Party in every Presidential election if they are a progressive. Democrats win both states by millions of votes. They are the two safest states in the union for Democrats.
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  13. Dean Boeckman private schools should be illegal in democratic republics.
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  14. Dean Boeckman Finland succeeded. You can win the argument in the US too. You just have to make the right argument. 70% of us are egalitarians. 30% are not. You will never win the 30%, but you don’t have to. You just need the 70%.
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  15. Christian Vennemann it makes total sense in a safe state to vote Green regardless of who the nominee of the Democratic Party is precisely to tell the Democratic Party and the nominee that its corruption is unacceptable, but also to help get the Greens to 5% of the vote specifically to get them General Election matching funds so that an alternative to the corrupt Democrats can continue to grow. It seems pretty obvious that the Justice Democrat’s route of trying to reform a corrupt party is not working. Even in New York that resulted in only 2 State Senate seats and 1 CD changing hands and NY has districts that are 85-95% Democratic. It resulted in ZERO US Senate wins. And less than a half dozen House seats overall and they had literally hundreds of candidates running. In my CD 10 candidates ran and the Justice Democrat’s ran a corporate party insider. Dylan Ratigan also ran. A local working class woman ran and was advised by a Green Party candidate who had garnered 11% of the vote in this very Republican district in 2014 to run as a Green. She didn’t. She came in second ahead of Ratigan. The Justice Democrat who has been a staffer for a corporatist State Assembly member came in fourth behind Ratigan and the winner was a former county legislator who was a long time DNC insider. Her campaign manager was literally the former State Party Chair who cast NY’s delegates for Clinton in 2016. The Republican incumbent trounced her by 70k votes. The Green Party candidate who did run was not nearly as strong as the 2014 candidate and picked up about 3k votes. Mind you in 2012 when the Greens ran, the Democrats were able to win the seat against the Republicans. This district is literally the district which in a 2009 special election voted in the deciding vote on the ACA. The Democrat from the district’s first vote in the House was the ACA, and he was the vote that put it over the top. When that Democratic incumbent retired in 2014 even if the Democrats had the 11% the Greens garnered they would have still lost by more than 10k votes. That being said for a midterm that race with our Green Party candidate increased voter participation in the CD by 5% and according to polling he took more Republican votes than Democratic votes in fact he took more Republican votes than either Democratic or independent.
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  16. Christian Vennemann I wouldn’t call Kentucky a safe state with Sanders on the ballot, but I would call NY and California and Massachusetts, and Vermont and Minnesota, and Washington, and Oregon and Hawaii, and Maryland, and New Jersey, and Delaware safe states. The only Red States I would call safely Republican and encourage Green Party votes in with Bernie on the ballot would be Idaho, Wyoming, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. Did you read my original comment? I talked about NY and California. Clinton won both states by margins which was larger than Trump’s margin in as many as ten states combined.
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  17. Christian Vennemann perhaps because Scandinavia is fat to the right of my politics!
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  18. Dennis Kucinich.
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  19. I saw it in 2016. I thought she was a corporatist plant to siphon support from Sanders in this cycle even then. The only people who could run against Bernie for the Democratic nomination who I would believe are legit progressives are Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel. The only people other than Bernie I know are real progressives are all Greens. Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers, Ralph Nader, Ajamu Baraka, Howie Hawkins, Jill Stein, David Cobb, and Howie Hawkins, the likely Green Party nominee is who I will be voting for even if Bernie is the nominee. NY is a safe state. I mean Clinton beat Trump by more votes in NY than Trump won by in about 10 states.
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