– Last week, Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a bill that would provide universal healthcare by expanding Medicare to include every American. Sanders introduced the bill flanked by doctors, nurses and some of the bill’s 15 Democratic co-sponsors. For more, we’re joined by best-selling author Naomi Klein.
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No Is Not Enough: Naomi Klein on Bernie's Medicare-for-All Bill & Future of Democratic Party
Poor Hillary! She just can’t stop digging her own grave.
…she should just die already.
…and she has helped dig A Lot of other graves, too.
Niki Ballu
Forget about a grave, Hillary already has her own coffin to sleep in. Then at night, she flies out of it like a bat.
Hillary just STFU please, you’re just jealous Bernie Sanders is the most popular Politician in the Country
The liberal mind is only good for protesting, smoking pot, talking about nonsense. Bernie has no clue how to set strategies, go against CNN/NYT, and win. He wants CORPORATE MEDIA to be his friend, while going against CORPORATISM…fucking naive old communist clown.
He separates the corporate hacks from the real progressives. Corporate hacks can’t stand someone who isn’t corrupt and they hate that Bernie calls them out.
^ “Calling out” doesn’t fucking DO anything.
Also progressives are fucking idiots who never really understood evolutionary biology.
Anonymous Oh look, a worthless, delusional Nazi.
+Anonymous
He’s the only one who shows them for who they really are, which is why they attack him so vehemently.. “Evolutionary biology”, LOL! Actually Darwin never wrote about the “survival of the fittest”: he actually wrote about the survival of the adaptable. Species which cannot adapt to a changing environment, usually succumb to it. Bernie has survived the rise of the corporate hacks because he plays their game skillfully while still adhering to his beliefs and it pisses them off greatly. The time of the corporate hack has reached it’s zenith and it’s all downhill for them after this. They’ve painted the average citizen into a smaller and smaller corner and average people have become tired of a smaller and smaller cup of crumbs.
Bernie Sanders has morals and integrity.
Sadly, though…many Americans do not recognize morals OR integrity.
donHooligan T H E N why ! W H Y did he friggn sell out to Hitlery ! ? because he and his family were getting death threats and…very huge amounts of money offers as in Elizabeth Warren and many more S E L L I N G O U T mether feckers you! love them for that! friggn hooligan
donHooligan …YOU! call that morals and integrity ! selling out??
Achode-
i doubt that you could comprehend a reasonable response.
you obviously “beLIEve” something that simply is not true.
Simply and well put. What we see is a reflection, not of a very small minority, but of most American’s . We think we have superior care, and that a market driven system is best for everything. It’s just not.
Big business is running the country and Trump is leading it with massive $$$ gain all round
Excellent interview with Naomi Klein – Thanks!
Naomi Klein one of the realest
15 Dem cosponsors all safely virtue signaling to progressives knowing the Republicans aren’t likely to call their bluff. It’s no different than Republicans repeatedly passing Obamacare repeals they knew had no chance of becoming law with Obama in the White House. Hollow and empty actions by all.
Brad Howard Bernie knows how to get things done; persistence is what does it!
Carol Vogelman Clearly
Go Bernie! Go universal healthcare! Let’s get well, my fellow Americans! <3 *Vote* *Inform others* & Resist!*
Go away Troll! No one wants you here!
Because we hold people accountable we are attacking them? Bernie still fighting for us while Hillary plays the victim. Says all you need to know.
leader of “western society” in this country. Guy is beloved in a way no American politician has been since F.D.R. saved the west from facism
funny all of our politicians used to be the Bernie Sanders, Ron Paul’s of the world. Now you have a bunch of Rockefeller and Rothschild lawyers/ advocates. WWII really fucked us up.
My comment stands, Bernie is 1) weak, and 2) a loser. Quantifiable.
+Anonymous No one really cares what you think so just slink away back under your rock.
I love Naomi Klein.
Being canadian is not enough
Hillary is not a democrat, she’s a republican in disguise, and that’s not a slam, that’s reality!!! She does not represent working, middle class citizens, she represents big money, wall street, big oil, big banks, and especially the military industrial complex. corporate democrats=republicans.
real eyes realize real lies That is the description of the Democratic Party, that is exactly what they think. Its people like you who can’t realise they’re not a party for the people anymore, haven’t been since the other sellout Demtard Clinton. The democrats are controlled by the same Zionist pigs that control the Repug party. Same end game different facade.
Peace ✌️
Wrong. It’s not people like me, I’ve voted green for the last twelve years and didn’t vote at all for two cycles before that.-between my name and corporate democrats= republicans, you would think that would be obvious. peace
Dumbass, that’s your whole postmodernist, progressive, leftist ideology—a sham.
+Shan Ri Ha I think that is exactly what real eyes does realize and was actually saying!
#MedicareForAll
The trolls are out in full force today. Not surprising, they hate it when people speak the truth.
Libs hate it when people speak the truth, see Bannon, Milo, Horowitz, Damore, etc. Gonna cry? You fascist fucking pussies.
Hillary means Bernie isn’t republican enough to be a democrat.
Democracy Now is where is at.
Capitalism is a RACKET ! Kills everything it touches, just so gazillionaires can hoard as much unearned wealth they can get their filthy hands on .
God I hate seeing the clip of Hillary AGAIN! I voted for Bernie in the primary and unfortunately her in the general. I have never heard such an embarrassing list of excuses, scapegoating and dodging responsibility from an candidate that lost.
And her next book is going to be titled….. “Why no one bought What Happened”. 🙂
The ‘money’s establishment have a decision to make ‘a slow death of a thousand cuts ‘ or giant fast leap of a cliff’ either way I don’t really give a dam,but know this ‘IT’S OVER!…
Why on Earth is Kamala Harris being called “the african american”? There is nothing “black” about that woman. I see her, and I see a white rich woman with a white rich womans speech, lifestyle and politics. So what if there was an actual African American somewhere in her lineage? Kamala Harris is at best beige. She has a tan. She is not black by any definition of the word.