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You don't have a single leftist politic in the US. Come on, you've got one of the most fucked up healthcare systems in the developed world, precisely because o

You don't have a single leftist politic in the US. Come on, you've got one of the most fucked up healthcare systems in the developed world, precisely because of your right-wing policies to privatize everything - and not a single politician is planning to fix that.

davidw 11y ago
> not a single politician is planning to fix that. You must not pay attention to the news much. Anyway, this whole discussion is politics, so... I have flagged the article.
- tedks 11y ago
  Politics is explicitly allowed on HN. If you want a neoliberal hugbox go to less wrong.
  - davidw 11y ago
    > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It's somewhat loosely enforced, but the guideline is there.
  - FeepingCreature 11y ago
    Actually LW is by majority social democrats (according to the 2014 survey). It just has some very vocal neoliberals.
    - tedks 11y ago
      No, less wrong is just so neoliberal, socially conservative, and outright fascist in the extreme that the ones that are "only" neocons think they're social democrats, in part because they aren't as extreme as the extremists and in part because they think they're all socially liberal because their Glorious Leader is polygamous.
dragonwriter 11y ago
> You don't have a single leftist politic in the US. We've got a few, but they rarely get much attention. > Come on, you've got one of the most fucked up healthcare systems in the developed world, precisely because of your right-wing policies to privatize everything - and not a single politician is planning to fix that. First, "one of" is superfluous. Second, though, the "not a single politician is planning to fix that" part is false; single-payer has a number of politicians who advocate for it, most notably, currently, Sen. Sanders, one of the two significant contenders for (though not the frontrunner) the Democratic Party nomination for the Presidency.
- NetStrikeForce 11y ago
  Happy to learn that about Sanders. I stand happily corrected, thank you!

davidw 11y ago

> not a single politician is planning to fix that. You must not pay attention to the news much. Anyway, this whole discussion is politics, so... I have flagged the article.

tedks 11y ago
Politics is explicitly allowed on HN. If you want a neoliberal hugbox go to less wrong.
- davidw 11y ago
  > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It's somewhat loosely enforced, but the guideline is there.
- FeepingCreature 11y ago
  Actually LW is by majority social democrats (according to the 2014 survey). It just has some very vocal neoliberals.
  - tedks 11y ago
    No, less wrong is just so neoliberal, socially conservative, and outright fascist in the extreme that the ones that are "only" neocons think they're social democrats, in part because they aren't as extreme as the extremists and in part because they think they're all socially liberal because their Glorious Leader is polygamous.

dragonwriter 11y ago

> You don't have a single leftist politic in the US. We've got a few, but they rarely get much attention. > Come on, you've got one of the most fucked up healthcare systems in the developed world, precisely because of your right-wing policies to privatize everything - and not a single politician is planning to fix that. First, "one of" is superfluous. Second, though, the "not a single politician is planning to fix that" part is false; single-payer has a number of politicians who advocate for it, most notably, currently, Sen. Sanders, one of the two significant contenders for (though not the frontrunner) the Democratic Party nomination for the Presidency.

NetStrikeForce 11y ago
Happy to learn that about Sanders. I stand happily corrected, thank you!