The majority of Americans want universal healthcare; the majority want free college; the majority want a higher minimum wage; the majority want to cancel the college loan debt. So yeah, let’s definitely not run on that because it would turn people off.
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12 Jan 2022
NEW: Centrists are warning progressives to back off with their favorite rhetoric as the Democratic Party enters a challenging midterm year where it is in deep danger of losing the House and Senate majorities. hill.cm/6jDzyVq

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Replying to @marwilliamson
Nope...wrong on all those
Replying to @marwilliamson @CatJova
And if this were a real democracy, we'd have all those things.
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No!
Replying to @marwilliamson
And yet they don’t vote for that because of the culture war. The dems don’t want to win
Replying to @marwilliamson
I think you could get much more support on college tuition if you framed the issue not as "free tuition" but as providing PUBLIC financing for PUBLIC universities, like we used to do up until the end of the 1970s, when college tuition was only a few hundred dollars per year.
Replying to @marwilliamson @SusanSarandon
Can you post where you got your "majority of Americans" claim from?
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Sure Jan...Paying higher taxes is a REAL TURN ON.
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