• freecandy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You can help by not calling it that. That was bullshit (successful) propaganda to help crash the program (the Affordable Care Act) into the ground.

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      1 year ago

      Fuck that. The ACA was arguably the best thing to happen in Obama’s tenure, even after it was completely sabotaged by the GOP. It’s probably what he’ll be remembered for (other than his skin color). And liberals have taken the name back, just like Dark Brandon.

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          1 year ago

          ACA is not good enough. But it was as far as we could get the right to move. I feel similarly about it as I do the 3/5 compromise. It’s stupid and clearly not good enough, but sometimes you have to take any step to get the rest of the country moving in the right direction at all.

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          1 year ago

          Well of course it’s trash as it was a conservative program that Obama then introduced as that was the only version of healthcare that could pass. Any non-trash programs would always be torpedoed by the ultra right, as they like their voters poor and dying for some reason.