So more difficult means we should not try?
In New Zealand, a country that punches above its weight in almost every sphere the Kiwis would look at our medical system and declare it “piss-poor mate...you yanks should get off your arses and stop whining about how difficult it would be. Didn’t you guys put a man on the moon?”
The Dems are shooting themselves in both feet over healthcare by pushing in some cases for the eradication of private health insurance
completely. America is a center right country and such talk will immediately set half of the country against you with another 10 or 20%
feeling uncomfortable.
A better plan would be to expand Medicare,
a plan already in place, to provide good basic health care for about $100 a month with subsidized drugs, and a $500 cap on long term and emergency services. People who can afford or prefer private insurance can continue with it. Yes, even this plan would cost a lot of money but nothing like the gargantuan trillions estimated for Medicare for all. What most Americans don’t realize is that all other western countries have this public/private option. The existence of a low cost public option keeps the private insurers in line and 10 million a year salaries for health care CEO’s are unheard of.

Small businesses in states that require Employer mandated healthcare would see their costs cut in half or more under a hybrid plan like the above.

I think it was Winston Churchill that said that the Americans can always be relied on to do the right thing...after they’ve tried everything else.

" It takes more than typing words to create a verisimilitude of erudition. The words must be placed in some sort of logical order also."
Don has a problem with that.

dongreen76 wrote:
"That's because to be conservative is to be non-secular.To be conservative is to be Theocratic.The problem here in the Good `Ole` U.S.of A.,is there are a certain sects of so called leaders that uses the concept of conservitism only to serve their not so Altruistic self serving agenda-
under clandestically cloaks of cover,they are just as progressively socially liberal as those that they promulgate as Paganistic,Anarchist Anti-Christes."

All those words to present BS!

Michael Moore: ‘White People Have Not Changed…You Should Be Afraid Of Them’

America made a huge stride in 2008 when voters picked Barack Obama, the first black man to serve in the nation’s highest office.

But that means nothing to film director and TDS sufferer Michael Moore.

“I refuse to participate in post-racial America,” Moore told Rolling Stone’s “Useful Idiots” podcast on Monday. “I refuse to say, ‘Because we elected Obama that suddenly that means everything’s OK, white people have changed.’ White people have not changed,” he said.

“Two-thirds of all white guys voted for Trump,” he said. “That means anytime you see three white guys walking at you, down the street toward you, two of them voted for Trump. You need to move over to the other sidewalk because these are not good people that are walking toward you. You should be afraid of them.”

“We’re traitors to our race, that’s how they see us,” Moore added.

Moore, a longtime sufferer of Trump Derangement Syndrome, makes movies that seethe with hatred for anyone who doesn’t think exactly like him. But the director last month admitted that Trump was right about one thing, which helped get him elected president.

“The people that came out for Trump,” said Moore, “I’m not talking about the racist white supremacist part, I’m talking about those people who are sick and tired of this system. Trump told them it was rigged — it was rigged — and he was right when he said that.”

Moore, appearing on MSNBC, said that Americans know the system is rigged against them, which Trump repeatedly said across the country as he campaigned in 2016.

“He knew — and said — that our political system is rigged, our media is rigged, the New York Times and [Times’ reporter] Judith Miller led us into a war in Iraq. All the rigging he kept talking about, people know it’s true,” he said.

Moore does realize the power of Trump. In 2017, he said the president likely will win re-election in 2020.

“I should say re-appointed, because we will have an even larger population that will vote against him in 2020,” Moore told Fast Company. “But he will win those electoral states as it stands now.”

Moore also lamented that “eight million Obama voters voted for Trump. We just need to convince a few of them — hold out our hand and bring them back. Can we do that? I think we can do that.”

“You know, there were seven-and-a-half million that voted Green or Libertarian,” he added. “I think we can convince a few of them to come back. We don’t need to convince a whole lot here.”

The director also predicted in July 2016 that the reality TV billionaire would soon be moving into the White House, penning a piece headlined, “5 Reasons Trump Will Win.”

Let’s face it: Our biggest problem here isn’t Trump – it’s Hillary. She is hugely unpopular — nearly 70% of all voters think she is untrustworthy and dishonest. She represents the old way of politics, not really believing in anything other than what can get you elected. That’s why she fights against gays getting married one moment, and the next she’s officiating a gay marriage. Young women are among her biggest detractors, which has to hurt considering it’s the sacrifices and the battles that Hillary and other women of her generation endured so that this younger generation would never have to be told by the Barbara Bushes of the world that they should just shut up and go bake some cookies. But the kids don’t like her, and not a day goes by that a millennial doesn’t tell me they aren’t voting for her. No Democrat, and certainly no independent, is waking up on November 8th excited to run out and vote for Hillary the way they did the day Obama became president or when Bernie was on the primary ballot. The enthusiasm just isn’t there. And because this election is going to come down to just one thing — who drags the most people out of the house and gets them to the polls — Trump right now is in the catbird seat.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-moore-white-people-have-not-changed-you-should-be-afraid-of-them?itm_source=parsely-api%3Futm_campaign%3Dben_shapiro_report&utm_medium=email&utm_source=housefile&utm_content=non_insiders&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--OBs8jpHUavt8JFYe1JB81RDAEi2QW-UoPmmQr7SViEfJ3sa9x228zTBKy3MDp2fAwpKYux0SD05imbNJlaYAJuvLH3g&_hsmi=81291032

To be a conservative who writes about culture is to exist in hostile occupied territory. I belong to a couple of film critics’ associations and when I meet with fellow film critics I’m nearly always the only conservative in the room. I’m in the same kind of underdog situation when I’m writing about theater, television, music, books, whatever. Like academia, the popular culture is a battlefield that conservatives have largely ceded to the enemy.

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This is why the Books, Arts & Manners section of NR has been there since the premiere issue back in 1955. Today, sponsored by National Review Institute, it is more robust than ever, with an expanded online section.

Our voices may get drowned out, mocked, ignored. But we must never be silent. Their half of America runs all the major Hollywood studios and the TV networks and the book publishers and the performing-arts institutions and the museums. They are pushing a hard-left cultural agenda on Americans — deriding capitalism, insisting that sex is determined by attitude rather than genetics, browbeating America with Oberlin College–style identity politics, and relabeling the Founding as defined by racism.

Our half of America is represented by a few lonely voices of sanity. I’ve been tearing apart the faulty assumptions, logical holes, shaky grasp of facts, and anti-American values of progressive culture for many years, and I’ll continue to do it for many more.

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