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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Perhaps this is just another example of how far right the Republicans have shifted... more to the point... if the Democrats are adopting Republican policy it shows how far political discourse in the US has shifted to the right.
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The U.S. is almost devoid of left politics. This is why you see this kind of thing happen: taking an idea such as universal health care and turning it into a mandatory insurance program. If that's not taking an idea rooted in social democracy and corrupting it into something digestible to entrenched neoliberals, I don't know what is.
The bill that was passed is decidedly influenced by conservatism.
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