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Kristen Welker / Bernie Sanders Interview: Kamala has flipped her stance on Universal Healthcare
Host Kristen Welker: "[Kamala Harris] has previously supported Medicare for All, now she does not. She's previously supported a ban on fracking, now she does not. These, Senator, are ideas that you have campaigned on. Do you think that she is abandoning her progressive ideals?"
Sanders: "No, I don't think she's abandoning her ideals. I think she is trying to be pragmatic and do what she thinks is right in order to win the election."
----- My Commentary ----
I don't think that Universal Healthcare is a negative issue for the voters... polling suggests that a near super majority of voters, 63%, in fact, want it. However, Universal Healthcare is very much a negative for campaign donors.
When will we stop chasing donor dollars and start doing what is right for the majority of American's who desire it? How do we force change without some form of direct democracy where we get past the representative layer that fights for campaign dollars versus the will of the people?
Bernie Sanders told the truth about Kamala Harris trying to fool voters. Believe him. (msn.com)
More Americans now favor single payer health coverage than in 2019 | Pew Research Center
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People generally do not care about policy, they care about what sounds good and what makes them look good. If they wrote a M4A bill and called it the Bible Health Doctrine, it'd probably pass yesterday.
It's why Kamala is pivoting away from good policy, it makes her more attractive to this apparently incredibly important centrist population that somehow republicans rarely have to worry about.