Socialsim, by any Other Name, by Bernie Sanders

BERNIE SANDERS, who but for the lack of a few million votes would now be president, would likely have made a far better president than the current one, the one who uses alternative facts as if facts were commodities purchased at amazon dot com, and refundable. he never does anything stupid, unlike the present president. From a right wing point of view, everything he does is stupid, which means that nothing he does is, since all right wing notions of wisdom and stupidity are, shall we say, alternate. Sanders has introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate to expand Medicare to include everybody in the country, thus creating a single payer, totally socialized health insurance system, like those in the wealthier more civilized countries of Europe. Last time he tried that, in 2013, he had no support, even among democrats. This time, sixteen democrats are on board, plus a strong plurality if not majority of we the American people. That matters not; the republican much prefer profit seeking health insurance, and what the American people prefer matters no more now than it ever has, which is never. The tired rap against Sander's plan is that it would cost too much, as if there exists anything on esrth which does not cost too much As if three quarters of a trillion dollars military budget supporting eight hundred far flung American military bases were not too expensive. It might be worth considering that if indeed the sky feel, hell froze over, congress adopted single payer health care and Trump learned how to write just in time to sign it, Medicaid and Obamacare would both be redundant, and their current combined expense would prove to have been more costly than the Sanders system. But, alsh, we must not have socialism, because we would be unable to call it anything other than socialism. or maybe we could invent another term: police, and fire protection are not called socialism, although they are, nary a road nor bridge is called a socialistic, although every last one of them is, the trick being, that whenever a socialistically funded, owned, and operated public good or service works well, and is socialistic, it simply is not called "socialistic', because to do so would be to recognize that social works,, and, far be it for us living her in the great American fun house to ever accept the dirty dark little secret; socialism works, like a charm. Psst: social security is socialism, but never say that to a church going right wing profit seeker. When a right wing Christian American goes to church, and mentions socialism, he or she is summarily excommunicated, socialism is not acceptable, even though America runs o it, could not exist without it, and must, therefore, think of something, anything, else to call it.