Nice try… Are you suggesting there are fewer on waitlists in United States? Or not waiting for hours in extreme pain in hospital emergency rooms? Or waiting so long that they actually die, given that they are among the 85 million uninsured or underinsured?

Qualified to do what, exactly? Let’s look at the things all those “qualified people” have given us: The Iraq war. Spectacular failure in Afghanistan. The highest poverty rate in the advanced world. A higher rate of chronic illness than any other advanced democracy. An overmedicated, chronically anxious, financially stressed majority. Children praying not to get shot at school. Opportunities and rights shrinking for women, transgender, immigrants seeking asylum, librarians and teachers, youth trying to get educated, people trying to buy homes, and workers trying to organize. Those “qualified” to get us into this mess not necessarily qualified to get us out of it.

I’m in England now, where my daughter just gave birth to her first child. There is no way to describe how different the air feels in a hospital where no one is worried about how they’re going to pay the bill.

“Proven not to work?” We literally have not tried any of them, and in countries that have them they work extremely well. in countries that have universal healthcare - which means every other advanced democracy - people are not forced to ration their insulin, put Go Fund Me pages on the Internet to try to pay for life-saving operations, or die of lack of healthcare.

We have the most expensive health care system in the world, providing the worst results for the most amount of people. #MedicareForAll

How can we “afford” free universal health care, for example? We pay for it now; we just pay for it with our lives. Tens of thousands in America die each year from lack of health care.

The purpose of tax revenue should be to promote the common good, not simply create and maintain an exclusive casino where only a few hold all the cards.

“Free” health care, tuition, child care, paid family leave etc. simply means paid for by your own taxes dollars!

“If they give it to the poor, they call it a handout; if they give it to the rich, they call it a subsidy.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

Our friends on the far right think it’s bad if things are “free,” except when it comes to “free stuff” like multi-billion subsidies to companies already making billions of dollars in profit. 🧵

Love that.

I think we should decrease the defense budget by at least 20 percent. As president I would close (which the president can do unilaterally) military bases in several countries. I would establish a U.S. Dept. of Peace. Our Sec. of Defense would not be a former member of Raytheon, nor would he or she be a military general. I do not give the U.S. war machine a pass.

To the "Oh she's not a serious candidate" crowd: I take seriously that America has the highest poverty rate of any advanced democracy. I take seriously that one in four Americans live with medical debt. I take seriously that tens of millions of Americans live with over a trillion dollars of college loan debt just so that greedy financial institutions can leech off young people's desire to become educated and better their lives. I take seriously that we need to ramp down fossil fuel extraction NOW if we're in any way to keep faith with the right of future generations to even survive on this planet. I take seriously the threats to democracy posed both by neo-fascism attacking it from the outside, and neoliberalism eroding it from the inside. Of course "they" don't want you to think I'm serious. Because. they're. not.

What about "It's time to inject a new dimension of love into human civilization" - check that one out and get back to me.

I don't know who made the comment, Jason, but they were not speaking for the campaign and they were not speaking for me. What they said was untrue; you know it and I know it, and I'm glad to say it publicly. You worked on the platform because we agree on those issues. And I appreciate what you did. I hope you win your next campaign for Congress because you belong there. I have always believed that and I believe it now.

Jason is fabulous, he's certainly a progressive, and none of this had anything to do with the campaign going further to the Left than he. I don't know who made the comment but it is not true.

Universal healthcare, free public university and tech school tuition, free childcare, paid family leave, guaranteed sick pay and a living wage - all are moderate positions in every other advanced democracy. They are the core of fundamental economic reform.

You, Mr. Speaker, are more than happy to spend “money we don’t have” as long as it’s on tax cuts for the very wealthy or subsidies for your corporate donors. The only ones you want to pay any sacrifice for your ill begotten notion of “fiscal responsibility” are the poor and disadvantaged.

We’ve moved from democracy to oligarchy, and the only way to fix that is with fundamental economic reform.