re: #229 Big Beautiful Door

Well it was a significant redistribution of income from the rich to the poor, regardless of the purists preference for single payer, which simply wasn’t politically feasible. Note Paul Ryan’s obsession with repealing the ACA so that all that money can be redistributed back to the rich.

Redistributing income isn’t really challenging the plutocracy. The plutocrats are still the rulers, even if they end up being taxed a bit more.

I’d like to see some kind of economic reform that leads to a system where these obscene accumulations of wealth and power don’t form in the first place. I can’t even imagine what this would be like, or how we could get from here to there politically.

But I am sure the present system cannot continue along a path of ‘business as usual’ where that is ever-increasing concentration of wealth and power for the rulers.