American capitalism politics in a nutshell.

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You can argue that politicians of many different ideological hues are often corrupt (or simply insincere) and fail to live up to their crowd-pleasing rhetoric. And that’s true.
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But ... the GOP ... couldn’t even vote to throw the tiniest bone to suffering people at the expense of corporate profits. (37.3 million Americans, or one in every Americans, has diabetes, according to the CDC.
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Try to imagine this happening in other scenarios.
Imagine that before the police investigated death threats from a stalker, you had to a at the Police Department’s reception desk. Or that when you stood on your front lawn watching your house burn down, the local fire captain approached you with a portable card reader so you could swipe or tap your debit card before he let his men take out their hoses and get to work.

You can’t be denied entrance to an emergency room because of your inability to . (You’ll just be bankrupted by the bill if you live.) You can, however, be denied life-saving insulin.
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As conservatives never tire of pointing out, someone has to for “free” . Yet when it comes to ranging from fire protection to K- public schools, the moral calculation is it’s better for everyone to for them through progressive taxation.
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If that calculation should be applied to anything, it should be medicine.