Face the Nation: Mainstream liberals take potshots at Sanders over Medicare for All

RE: FACE THE NATION Jan. 24, 2916

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hile we have explained at some length why we do not trust Bernie Sanders as a genuine “socialist” or serious reformer, or, for matter, someone who might be able to lead the United States out of the toxic capitalist/imperialist swamp in which it is so firmly embedded, and while maintaining that his foreign policy positions are hard to fathom or justify, putting it kindly, including his implicit support for Israel, we do think something positive may have been accomplished through his candidacy as Sanders has become more vociferous in his denunciation of income inequality, the “1%”, and the lack of a universal healthcare system, a “Medicare for all,” as so many left critics have proposed over the years. In insisting on such issues, he has broken through (momentarily) the liberaloid media blockade protecting Obamacare and forbidding the discussion of its obvious alternative, a single payer system, and raised the standard of debate toward more egalitarian and effective —socialist—alternatives.

Again, this is not an endorsement of electoral politics, per se, or Sanders’ candidacy, but a recognition that his running has put such questions before large audiences, which is certainly salutary. Meanwhile, watch and read—with the usual revulsion—the statements emanating from the Hillary camp poo-pooing Medicare for All (she believes in “improving”, snail-pace, Obamacare), and the “cautionary” words of advice flowing unsolicited from mainstream liberals like the ever shifty Paul Krugman, who is so uncomfortable with Sanders’ talk of Medicare for All, that he is labeling that “misguided idealism.” FtN host John Dickerson is of course happy to serve the tripwires. 

Watch this exchange closely, and learn. Good luck.

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