Universality's Primacy

Have you noticed that there's fierce opposition against any proposal for universal programs in America? There have been many polls this year, asking Americans if they want a universal healthcare service and the results were as I expected: a large majority indeed want such a system.

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universality - noun - the quality of involving or being shared by all people or things in the world or in a particular group.

primacy - noun - the fact of being pre-eminent or most important.

During 2019 polls showed that approximately 70 percent of the American population are in favor of a single payer universal healthcare system. All polls show that healthcare is the number one concern for voters in 2019; the numbers have been repeated over and over again, with 500,000 bankruptcies due to medical bills and 30,000 to 40,000 deaths because people didn't have access to basic healthcare EACH YEAR in America. The current U.S. healthcare system scores lowest among all developed western nations consistently, and I'm sure you've heard over and over again that it's also the world's most expensive system: Americans pay twice as much for the worst system out there. If you live in America, please watch the video at the end to get an idea about how the rest of the world reacts when they hear how screwed you really are by your for profit, market driven healthcare system.

As of recently, support for a universal healthcare system has dropped, but is still hanging on to well over 50 percent. The reason for this is clear: there's a war being waged against universal healthcare through mainstream media, by Republicans and yes, by Democrats as well. There's even a coalition formed, consisting of pharmaceutical companies, health insurance companies and for profit hospitals, with the sole purpose of fighting back against universal healthcare during the Democratic debates; they're called the Partnership for America's Health Care Future and their website's slogan is "Build on what’s working in health care and fix what’s broken – not start over." These snakes are so good at sounding perfectly reasonable while selling their poison... Here's one of their ads, in which they have invested many millions of dollars:

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After watching that video, it should be clear that Republicans are against universal anything as it's filled with their standard talking points. But what's far more interesting and chilling to see, is how the Democrats betray their own voter-base by fighting equally hard against universal healthcare. Bernie Sanders wrote the original healthcare for all bill when he started his campaign and he led the way on this issue; all Democratic candidates, seeing how successful Bernie was and still is, quickly adopted their own version of better healthcare and many even outright supported Bernie's plan. No wonder, seeing the huge amount of support among their base; nation-wide support was 70 percent before the propaganda anti-campaign, but among Democratic voters, support is 80 percent, and that's even now, after all millions of dollars of the misleading ads. And what happened to the candidates? They all went back on their words and one by one changed their proposals to a much weaker public option, with catchy names like "medicare for all who want it", making the same Republican point about choice used in the above linked ad. What happened is this: they first did what's right, which is give their voters what they actually want (for a change), but then, all the candidates who still depend on big donors for their funding, were told by those big donors that healthcare for all is a no-no. Think about it: Democratic candidates would rather go with a losing strategy, rather go against the will of their voters than go against the will of Big Pharma. Bernie doesn't have this pressure, as he is funded exclusively by small donors, of which he has over 4 million, breaking all previous records.

"I just don't believe it makes sense to ask working class families to subsidize even the children of billionaires", said Pete Buttigieg recently; he's one of those supposed progressives within the Democratic corpus. He's also against free college for all, as that's what he was responding to in this particular quote. Let me reiterate why this is malicious and just plain wrong. The strength of universal programs is in their universality, for many reasons, the main one being that if everyone contributes, everyone has equal access and everyone is invested. Universal programs, in other words, unify people among a common goal, common values and common ethics. A public library is not just for people who can't afford books. Public school is for everyone, just like public roads. "Fire department for all who want it"; does that sound reasonable at all? No, public services are for us all because we have built them together; they are the great un-dividers.

What Pete Buttigieg proposes, "college for all who can't afford it" and "medicare for all who want it", is conceding to the old Republican, right wing weapon called "means testing", which is a great divider. And an especially devious one at that. This is playing straight into the handbook of the snakes who call all those eligible for government assistance "parasites" and "leaches". The fact that with such programs people will have to prove that they are poor enough to apply is evil: it leaves them feeling that they've failed in life, that they were unable to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps", and it feeds the aforementioned snakes in their eternal war against the unsuccessful. If you ever wanted to prolong and accentuate the class-divide, this is it. And Buttigieg, along with his ideological counterparts in the Democratic as well as the Republican party , want it, because their corporate masters want it. This should outrage all of you, dear Americans; your entire political and media landscape is turned against you, trying to keep you from getting what's rightfully yours: universal healthcare, free college for all, a minimum wage that's a living wage, public housing projects to fight homelessness, a Green New Deal to create countless new jobs, with job- and schooling guarantees for those who'll lose their job while transitioning to a greener economy, and so on and so forth. There's only one candidate who will fight for all of this, and you already know who he is. Is this impossible? No, it's been done before; you have the advantage in numbers against the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent...

_{British People SHOCKED By American Healthcare Prices}

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