Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Why McConnell Is About to Blow Up the GOP" video.

  1. Dore is an idiot, whose actions benefit Republicans most. He might as well be one.
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  2.  @Cyrus992  Pretending like both are exactly the same is nonsense. Trying to toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion isn't samesies as not doing that and possibly adding 40m older Americans to Medicare. Sure, it's not M4A, but all or nothing often gets you nothing. Dore promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton. He claimed it would lead to a progressive wave that would "for sure" take the house, senate, and presidency, by 2020. Wrong, on all counts. He vastly overestimated the benefits. He also didn't see Republicans as far worse than Democrats, and claimed they would join Democrats in voting against the Trump agenda. Instead, they embraced overt fascism. He vastly underestimated the risks. He even gaslit (actual gaslighting is trying to falsely make someone feel crazy, or appear crazy to others, not simply to mislead people) Sam Seder, making out like the possibility of Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan, and what Sam was saying was insane. Events have proven that Dore was the completely delusional one. Dore has also promoted going third party, which hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in 50 years. At best, you peel away enough progressive votes to hand the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems, and let Republicans rule for decades. It's a fantasy to think that's a viable option to get what you want. The system needs to be changed to make third parties viable, and you can't do that from the outside. "Call out" shouldn't equate to slander. AOC campaigned for Bernie and his M4A, while Dore was backing Tulsi and her "Medicare choice". Her not having an M4A platform wasn't a deal breaker for him. AOC also used her platform and PAC to back 20 other pro-M4A progressives, helping to add a few more M4A yes votes to congress, and helping to take out a few more corporate Dems. Adding more yes votes is exactly what needs doing to ever pass the bill. It's exactly what you'd still need to do even if there was a guaranteed to fail vote. Pretending like that isn't fighting for M4A is garbage. Pretending she has sold out is garbage. She also never once ran on threatening to paralyze the house. Dore making out like she did was a strawman, giving his own meaning to her words, when she never indicated such a meaning. He also makes false equivalencies between things like a bill that's about 100 votes short in the house alone, that wouldn't get any hearings or major debate if you somehow dodge going through committees, where those things happen, and comparing that to an impeachment that only fell a few votes short in the senate, and got a hearing and major debate. He also misrepresents surveys. The Pew survey he cited about 88% Dem voter support for M4A actually showed 88% support for some kind of government responsibility for healthcare, but only 54% for all out single payer. He used it to claim the majority of Americans wanted M4A but, same thing, it showed that, of the majority who said the government had a responsibility to make sure everyone was covered, only 36% wanted all out single payer. On the other hand, the majority of Americans wanted Trump impeached. There was no equivalence between the two things, any which way you look at it. Using his made up nonsense to trash progressives, making people lose confidence in them, will only end up benefiting corporate Dems and Republicans, the ones he is supposedly against. For him to spend weeks making out like a disagreement on a secondary tactic was a deal breaker, and that anyone who didn't agree with him was some kind of fraud, was no longer an ally, he immediately turned around and made out like some ancap Boogaloos, who are the complete opposite when it comes to economics, who don't want any government healthcare, at all, could be allies, just because they're anti-authoritarian on a few topics. That's actual insanity. And, the progressive caucus got the $15 minimum to stay in the covid relief bill for a round of voting. He immediately turned around and made out like getting a vote doesn't count for shit. Even that isn't good enough. Simply getting a vote was a huge freaking deal, and a deal breaker, one second, but then it's worthless, the next. He's a walking contradiction. He's only consistent in his Dems = bad message. However he has to twist things, manipulate surveys, slander, contradict himself, the message is consistently Dems = bad. For a "real" progressive, he seems to promote actions that benefit Republicans most. Odd.
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