At this point in the shutdown, Democrats need to loudly call for Medicare for All.

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33. THIS THIS THIS

We never should have shut up about it. And not Medicare for All.

Give us our fucking subsidy bandaid and open the government. But then watch out, because people are WAKING UP. They KNOW we MUST have Single-payor universal health care. And that is what we're going to fight to get them, however long it takes.

YOU DO NOT BUILD THE POLITICAL WILL FOR SOMETHING BY SHUTTING UP ABOUT IT!!!

You keep advocating, loud and proud! And keep advocating. As you do, you change the boundaries of the possible. You make it MORE likely that you can get further down the road toward the ultimate goal FASTER.

We have been pulled in to Fascist Hell by the notion that you can only attempt to get that which you are sure is winnable. By surrendering in advance. By declaring can't win, won't fight.

Did the anti-abortionists STFU when everyone told them Roe v. Wade would never be overturned??

The day Hillary's effort failed, we should have rolled up our sleeves and started arguing against any fucking compromise that shovels money into the pockets of insurance companies who spent all those millions to make sure we didn't reduce their profits by a penny. The cry "No more for-profit health care. Our health is not a COMMODITY!! " should have started the next day.