Some emphasis added: Me: A lot of the ... rhetoric You: Calling all that racist By pointing out this, I don't believe I called the views themselves, nor any

Some emphasis added: Me: A lot of the ... rhetoric You: Calling all that racist By pointing out this, I don't believe I called the views themselves, nor any specific adherent to the viewpoint, let alone 100% of them, racist. Just that "a lot" of the rhetoric comes from this. Which it does. Meanwhile, did you listen to the Lee Atwater clip? Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT2fsv7xt4E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT2fsv7xt4E This aligns pretty well with the rise of Reagan (for whom Atwater worked) and the late 20th century to present wave of "small government" politicians who somehow, shockingly, seem to rack up massive debts without a care when they are in power. Lastly, > you're just trying to find an excuse to dismiss it without having to make an argument for why it won't work. Health care is the perfect such argument, actually. Look at the rest of the developed world, or even something low overhead like Medicare [which doesn't need massive advertising budgets or, say, thousands of redundant billing companies], and tell me the US private sector does a better job.