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> Can't understand how this is not being talked about much since Bernie dropped out.

It's not being talked about much because it is unpalatable to the pro-big-business arm of the Democrat establishment. And you cannot find a more pro-establishment candidate than Biden.

We'll get a chance to try again in four years.

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You mean Big Insurance Big Pharma ? Because I think most businesses , big and small, would benefit from a universal medicare type solution. One less thing to worry about for them and presumably government funded/single payer/ yada yada. It seems to me the whole theory that government programs need to be "paid for" is out the window as the Fed has 6T on their balances sheets and Congress has instructed the Treasury to spend 1.5 or 2T on C19 relief by printing treasury securities(that the Fed can buy if needbe). So its not about how can we fund universal health care ( and also a more dignified Social security retirement system [leave that for another thread]) its about the will to freaking do it and stand up to Big Pharma, Big Medicine, and Big Insurance lobbies.

You won't because the super delegates + plus press control over friendly outlets prevent candidates the public loves from winning and gives them candidates they are told they should like. And even though they look good on paper they never feel right. Then the general election happens and the other party wins because whoever their candidate is they generally have populist support. Once in a generation people do get the candidate they want but they give themselves a serious disadvantage each year.

Just because you don't like the candidate it doesn't mean that nobody else does.

You what? Biden won because the public liked him more than Bernie, as you could see by the polls and the vote counts.

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