Sanders single-payer litmus test alarms Dems

[Kingpoleon]

Can we stop with the damn litmus tests? Like yeah it would be cool if everybody backed single payer but let's just start with something like supporting universal access to affordable healthcare as a basic tenet.

Please start with this. Even Romney seemed to support UHC in 2012.

[Kingpoleon]

Conyers's bill has the potential to destroy scores of thousands of jobs, if not more, as well as send the fragile health industry and medical system into a state of massive instability.

[Kingpoleon]

In the end, winning elections is the most important part. If progressive issues play badly in West Virginia and North Dakota, then moving towards the center is a matter of survival. When democrats had 60 seats in 2009,  there were at least 17 centrist Democrats by my count.

Depends on what we need to move to center with. I think the leftwards shift on social issues has probably hurt Democrats a good bit with various white demographics in the midwest/rust belt, and there is no reason economically liberal/culturally conservative Democrats can't win there and possibly in some parts of Appalachia.

Honestly the last thing I want to see is any faction of Democrats justifying a shift to the center on economic issues based on the results of the past few elections. That seems like an excuse for Democrats to satisfy rich donors and special interests, when such a shift is totally unnecessary.

Hang on - you think Obama and Clinton were economic moderates?