• someguy3@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It’s a joke if your “black mark” is a joke. Like it or not, it was and is the most progressive healthcare ever, on a federal level if you want to be pedantic. Get a clue indeed.

    Which brings us back to: If you want more, then you have to give Dems consistent and overwhelming victories.

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      3 months ago

      In what way was it more progressive than Medicare and Medicaid?

      Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society is the high-water mark of progressive domestic legislation. Nothing in the 60 years since then is remotely close - quite the opposite, actually