Yes, the Republicans/Conservatives think they're now in control of the Supreme Court for a generation. But Democrats and liberals are now so furious they want to fight to the bitter end with extreme measures like packing the court, impeachment and likely even violence.
I would rather use multiple then one that creates more words then one, but I wouldn't say CNN represents all MSM using loads is the safest bet.
But one is the Media the other is a politician a known profession for lying especially pre election.
Erm... okay. I'm not really sure what the first part of your sentence actually means but my suspicion is that people are migrating away from TV and print news towards YouTube opinion videos and wingnutty privately run websites whose truth may be a little varnished itself.
It sounded good in my head lol, basically if I find one story I would like to see the same story on another site using it's own source or a different one, is what I mean.
I'm curious to know what your plan would be to convert the United States to single payer healthcare. Do you simply buy all the existing hospitals and then hire all the nurses and doctors at a dramatically reduced rate? Do you think all of the nurses and doctors will come to work for the state at that dramatically reduced rate? What do you do if some hospitals don't want to sell to the government? What would be the cost of purchasing all the medical facilities in the U.S.? Who determines the price of these purchases? What happens to the hundreds of thousands of people and all the infrastructure in the health insurance business? Who compensates them for their losses, both corporate and on an individual level?Damn man. Dont be so hostile! Medicare for all could easily be funded if not for taxcuts , wallfunding and the increased military budget. Remember that most western countries already have a singlepayer system. Heck even Canada! The high cost estimate is based on the inflated prices for healthcare in the USA, which in part is caused by the free market. A single payer system will bring those costs down even for private insurances. Just compare medical costs in other wealthy countries with the USA. https://www.vox.com/a/health-prices
Remember how Trump promised to take an big pharma? Universal healthcare is how you fight the crazy price differences with the rest of the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/upshot/why-single-payer-health-care-saves-money.html
And I hope you are clever enough to know that more expensive does not equal better quality care.
I think it is ethically wrong to make huge profits off of sick people. There is a thin line between making a living and appropiate wage and exploitation. Do you want a doctor who made the hipporatic oath to be a doctor because of wanthing to become rich or to help people?
That is how taxes work. You pay more when you earn more. Do you really want rich people pay the same income tax as poor people even though they use the same public resources (maybe even less) as you do? I dont know how this tax is structured, but that is something that easily can be fixed to be fair to all. Implementing a cap to each income bracket shouldnt be hard to reach a bipartisan concensus.
If I have doubts around a news story I try to go around msnbc, cnn, ny times, Fox, BBC, Vox, politifacts and the news in my country. Whichever is corrobarated the most and shows the most facts I most likely will believe. The most obvious with msm is when Fox news ignores the topic in their news cycle. Then you can almost certain bet on a story is 100% true. If they try to spin it, then you know there is truth but also some bias in the story and you should dig deeper and then make your own opinion.
So in a sense I see Fox as the news of the MSM. They are the first ones that hold the MSM accountable. So I recommend everyone who is liberal, moderate liberal/conservative to watch fox news as well with important news stories.
I mean, I personally would do what has already been suggested several times over. Take all the welfare being spent on healthcare, pool it and create medicare for all and have that be the single payer system. Private hospitals, DRs, RNs have no need to be bought out. They will get paid just like they do now with the typical insurance company. Hell, if people or employers want to get/offer insurance above and beyond a set national policy, they can offer it from a private company.
By all means; I claim no ownership.
Right? Either Trump is stupid for thinking the addition of "believe me" or "I am the most/least ... you have ever seen/you will ever meet" somehow validates his remarks on the topic he's addressing or he thinks his supporters stupid enough to actually believe it. Yeah...no...no "either/or"; in all likelihood it's a mixture of the two.
With the level of hyper partisanship that surrounds American politics the days I cant see anything of any consequence getting done on a national level going forward unless one party controls all 3 levels of government. The only thing that will bring them together and only temporarily, is a crisis.
The mid-terms won't make the slightest difference. This move to hyper partisanship goes far beyond politicians, it's a complete cultural shift brought about, IMO, by social media, the 24 hour news cycle and the explosion of the internet. Before social media and the easily available internet, most of what we heard from politicians and about the political process was filtered through the mainstream media. Presidents would go on tv and make speeches, pop up on a talk show here or there and that was it. Same with run of the mill politicians but you'd see them much more rarely. We heard about the big stuff and that was about it. Social media gives everyone a voice and the problem with that is, people won't shut up
. Everyone gets involved, everyone is pressured to be on the camera all the time, everything is recorded for posterity and everything is analyzed as if it's of biblical importance. Minor slip ups are catastrophes and bucking political correctness is often a career ender for all but a few. 10 years ago or more you had no idea what most politicians did or said or ate or thought or crapped out unless it was a very important issue and even then, they'd be lucky to get in a sentence or two on the nightly news.
The mid-terms won't make the slightest difference. This move to hyper partisanship goes far beyond politicians, it's a complete cultural shift brought about, IMO, by social media, the 24 hour news cycle and the explosion of the internet. Before social media and the easily available internet, most of what we heard from politicians and about the political process was filtered through the mainstream media. Presidents would go on tv and make speeches, pop up on a talk show here or there and that was it. Same with run of the mill politicians but you'd see them much more rarely. We heard about the big stuff and that was about it. Social media gives everyone a voice and the problem with that is, people won't shut up
Before you take it the wrong way, I'm not blaming social media etc. perse or the people who run those avenues of engagement, it is what it is, but it's completely changed our level of knowledge of the goings on of the political sphere and made everything much more personal. That's a genie that's not going back in the bottle. The partisanship you see was always there, it's just more immediate, more here and now than it ever was.
