******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. *****************************************************************
"Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden debated each other one-on-one for the first, and possibly last, time last night. Despite the claims of the Sanders campaign, Biden more or less came out on top from this viewer’s point of view.... "The first part of the discussion was, naturally enough, about coronavirus. Jake Tapper pointed out that the main problem in Italy was insufficient hospital beds. He asked Sanders how Medicare for All would solve that problem. That is the question of the hour as far as Medicare for All and it really put Sanders on the ropes. He responded as a typical politician. “First of all, I would make it clear to the pharmaceutical companies that this is not the time to be profiteering,” he said. (This sort of condemnation of corporate profiteering is a ritual among politicians. But little is ever done about it.) He talked about how Ebola “exposes the dysfunctionality of our health care system.” He talked about wealth inequality. Everything but the lack of hospital beds in the US (2.8 per thousand people vs. 8 per thousand in Germany).... "Biden, who also evades this central question, homed in. “People are looking for results, not a revolution,” he said. “What do we do right now?” he continued. We need to respond “to the immediate needs and then respond to the long term issues…. First things first.” "The question is where the tens of thousands of Sanders enthusiasts go from here.... While it is late in the game, DSA should still start to raise that call (for socialized medicine)" https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/03/16/sanders-biden-debate-first-and-last/ -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
