Sanders Drops Out, But Arizona Supporters Say They Are Still In The Fight

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5. And Joe Arpaio files to run for sheriff as he waits for his pardon.

Good 'ol Arizona. At least as tough a place if not worse to be a liberal Democrat than here in Georgia.

I have no respect for even well meaning people who want to destroy the ACA because it's profoundly misguided, to the point of being outrageously irresponsible. A sign of the current political craziness. The Republicans are doing their best to make sure we NEVER have universal healthcare, and pretending that the enormous powers ranged against it aren't a huge problem, using the cry for "MfA" to try to undermine support for the very real system they've so far failed to destroy, is shamefully delusional.

That the Republican Party and its power backers and Sanders, and his, are united in trying to destroy our current healthcare system should have been a huge, flaming red flag to all. And their failure -- so far -- should in contrast create great appreciation for the strength of the ACA on this battlefield.

With Sanders' help in creating the current majority, SCOTUS may still bring it down, but if that happens it means SCOTUS will also destroy all chance for any national healthcare system Am I claiming Sanders doesn't want universal? No. I'm claiming he is a big reason we don't have it right now and its future, and that of Medicare itself, is now in very grave danger.

And on that subject, those who imagine trying to destroy universal healthcare through the ACA is somehow nevertheless all about creating universal healthcare should take a good look at some of the people they're allied with. Social conservatives in both Trump and Sanders' populist movements raged from the very beginning, even without a replacement in sight, against the ACA -- which is both a Democratic Party product and will go down in history as a black president's achievement. Who's negatively motivated more by which offense is an individual matter, but they were one in immediately leaping to insist the ACA had to be destroyed and replaced with something completely nonexistent that would passed by Trump or Sanders with a different name.

Not okay. Democratic Party is committed to universal healthcare, and over the years we've elected good people who want it also. Nancy Pelosi, a huge power behind the passage of the ACA, is still completely committed, just waiting for Democratic control of the senate.

Any of these AZ noisies who sincerely want universal healthcare, instead of some other, unexamined and far less admirable goal, need to support them in doing what they were elected to do. And start by dumping their association with those using it as an excuse for acting out against the Democratic Party.