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Churchill used this line (mangled here, obvs) in the election of '45, charging the folks he'd run the anti-Nazi war effort against as no different from Nazis.
The result? Labor & Clement Attlee CRUSHED Conservatives & created the National Health Service & a ton of other programs
The result? Labor & Clement Attlee CRUSHED Conservatives & created the National Health Service & a ton of other programs
You can't even fit the social welfare legislation Attlee had passed on one screen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attlee_mi…
Anyhoo now everyone in the UK's had affordable healthcare for nearly three-quarters of a century, the British empire stopped oppressing the rest of the world, and there's no English Gestapo.
Imagine if we taught high schoolers this history.
Imagine if we taught Republican Senators this history.
I mean seriously, this is the political genius @TomCottonAR is lauding here *with this exact story*:
"If he continues like that the election is as good as lost."
No shit.
books.google.com/books?id=ez7WC…
"If he continues like that the election is as good as lost."
No shit.
books.google.com/books?id=ez7WC…
"The British people did not believe it."
And they all have health insurance.
And they all have health insurance.
FWIW the still non-socialist Germany also has universal affordable health insurance.
