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@toddr1592 Obviously There's two reasons that Obamacare didn't turn out how Obama promised during the campaign: 1. Obama and Democrats tried VERY hard while writing the law to compromise with Republicans. But Republicans were negotiating in bad faith. They got lots of concessions, but then every single one of them voted against the law anyway. Republicans took advantage of Democrats' willingness to work together with them and trashed the law. 2. And then even some conservative Democrats weren't all in on the "universal" healthcare. And because of the filibuster (which required 60 votes to pass a law), they had exactly 0 votes to spare. That's why we didn't even get a public option to compete with insurance companies. Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman got bought out by the insurance companies and promised to vote 'no' if there was a public option. So here we are 10 years later still trying to "finish" Obamacare. Republican sabotage mixed with resistance from conservative Democrats in the Senate gave us a flimsy law that doesn't really make anyone happy. But unfortunately politics is that art of the possible, not the perfect. Yes, some people have high deductibles, but 25 million more people now have insurance at all, and everyone's pre-existing conditions are now covered. And people under age 26 can stay on their parents' insurance. Lastly, the price of healthcare is not increasing as fast as it once was (but unfortunately it's still too fast).
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@pedropaulonormando3691 Exactly. The people who wrote our Constitution did a decent job, but FAR from perfect. Not even close to perfect. There are lots of changes that should be made, but unfortunately the writers of the Constitution also made to way too difficult to change the constitution. Our Constitution is one of the most difficult in the world to change. So it looks like for the foreseeable future, representatives will only have 2 year terms. And election season will never end.
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@lolno6562 And yet in 2020 it is Republicans that want to protect Confederate monuments. Almost like they are rooting for the enemy they fought against. You want people to vote based on how the parties used to be rather than how they are today. Yes, Democrats started Jim Crow. But no one cares which party Lincoln was from since it was Democrats that ultimately ended Jim Crow, passed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, and elected a black person to be President. It is now Republicans that do everything in their power to make it harder for black people to vote. It's Republicans that did everything they could to erase the legacy of Barack Obama, a man admired by most black Americans.
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@Great-white-tiger-hunter This is your mistake. You think Democrats only come into black neighborhoods during election season. In fact, Democrats were already there. Because Democrats actually live in black neighborhoods. Many of the black people who live in those black neighborhoods are in fact Democratic politicians. You're mistaking Democrats for Republicans. Republicans hardly ever come into black neighborhoods. And I could count the number of black Republican politicians on two hands. Republicans have all these complicated theories about why black people vote for Democrats. But then they trash Obama and elect a president most people in the world think is a white supremacist. You brag about Trump giving money to HBCUs, but then he just tried to throw out millions of votes from black people in Democratic cities after he lost the election.
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@Great-white-tiger-hunter Republicans always complaining about why Democrats get black voters saying Democrats only go to "poor" neighborhoods during election season. Meanwhile Republicans don't go to black neighborhoods AT ALL. Republicans keep asking why people call them racist. But rather than look at what they are doing, they prefer to just criticize Democrats and act like black voters are "confused."
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@lolno6562 No false promises. It's just Democrats care (at least a little bit) and Republicans don't. One sure sign that you care is allowing people of color to be in positions of power. Republicans have a habit of harshly attacking any women or minority in a position of power. Obama, the "Squad", Kamala. Meanwhile the Republican Party is headed is headed almost completely by old white men. Nothing against old white men, but they usually don't understand the problems of people who are NOT old white men.
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