Why?

Right.

What the fuck?

Like, why the fuck would you do that?

Why would you just replicate the shitty fucking system that we have unless the goal ultimately

was to have maybe another slightly, like marginally nicer maybe option that is just kind of the same thing,

but ultimately we'll do what politically just suggest to people that nothing will really fucking change even if the government runs it?

No, no, no, but I think that this is like there's a, you know, and I don't want to go like to political science, political historian on this because we're trying to evaluate the like what these questions mean in terms of the actual coverage.

But like it's hard to read these questions and not conclude something very significant about the way the Democratic Party politics works from them, which is that like the material substance of like what they, the authors of this like letter expect, you know, politics to look like when legislation is sort of on the floors, they do not assume, you know, perhaps rightly, I guess, given given the role of the, how the Democratic Party sort of evolved, they don't, there's no assumption about like a mass base for politics, right? The whole point here is like, you know, how do we coordinate with these sort of industrial sectors some slightly different version of what we're currently doing, which benefits them because that is where the political energy for legislation comes from. If you want to get anything, if you want to get anything done in the minds of the people who wrote this, you have to, it's all about coordinating the action among those sort of gears in the machine. What, so then what is the question about like, are the masses for like what is the electorate for

and how does this relate to that the point is that like the electorate responds not to like

the calculation here is the electorate responds not to like material changes in their lives

which i actually think that they do,

but like the calculation here is that they don't respond to that, or at least you can't

depend on them to respond to that. So what are we going to try to do? We're going to try to

reinforce the idea that the brand of the Democratic Party is the party that gives people more

health care. Whether or not they do that at all is immaterial.

The important thing, and I feel like I'm channeling B here when I'm saying this,

but the important thing is that they be seen as the party that does that sort of thing

and that people sociotropically, like, you know, begin to affiliate the Democrats with

doing that.

So, like, I think that's what

makes this discussion so frustrating because coming at this, like, a policy analyst is kind of

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