We spoke to Bernie Sanders about alleged health insurance CEO shooter Luigi Mangione, the crisis of for-profit health care in America, why only a mass movement can win Medicare for All, and how to fight the growing share of working-class votes for the Right.
I feel like we’ve made more progress in our national discussion regarfing healthcare since the assassination than we have in the previous 10 years.
I don’t want to think that violence is the answer, but damn if it ain’t a conversation starter.
There is no escaping that sometimes violence is the only answer. It took that level of drama for right wingers to acknowledge what they have in common with progressives. It’s really hard for right wing populists to resist supporting murder.
I’ve also seen more people realize that an armed populace can provide a check on oppression witpopulrequiring a revolutionary uprising and defeating the military.
Having more guns than people means that the more people you piss off, the less safe you are.
If ine nutjob with a gun wants a politician or business leader dead, they can be stopped.
If 100,000 nutjobs want to assassinate you, one of them is gonna slip through.
There’s also the fact that the day after many insurance companies were suddenly approving procedures they denied the day before.
In all likelihood the assassination saved lives.