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If you don't see Bernie saying he would support a Democrat who didn't support single payer in the following statement then we simply can't agree.
Sanders told The Post that healthcare, and support for a single-payer system, is just one issue for voters to consider.
“Is this a litmus test? No, you have to look at where candidates are on many issues,” Sanders said.
“But you’re seeing more and more movement toward ‘Medicare for All.’ When the people are saying we need healthcare for everyone, as more and more Americans come on board, it will become politically possible.”
I'm listening to his recent statements and it seems to me that he's showing much more flexibility and willingness to compromise than his rhetoric last year would lead one to believe. Pad and tty are livid that I'm saying he's being pragmatic about single payer healthcare. As I see it, he's conceding to the reality that his single payer healthcare bill has little chance of passing now or even in 2018. In written policy positions, he hasn't changed. In speech and tone of statements, it seems to me that he's changing his stance to be more open to compromise.
For example, during the debate in January 2016, he ripped Clinton a new asshole over the ACA. He came across as totally against anything other than single payer. ever. Now, he's like: "well, OK, we can agree to disagree but I still support single payer myself."
http://time.com/4183990/democratic-debate-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-obamacare/
I don't think this is a bad thing. I am having fun poking at some of the more hyperbolic Sanders supporters who have been railing against the Democratic party about single payer healthcare. They go on and on about corrupt Democrats as if the Republicans didn't have anything to do with stopping it each and every time Democrats tried to get it passed into law. Yet, here we are. Sanders is not that much different in stance than Clinton. Except he's going to write a bill that will never see the light of day and he knows it.
