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Medicare For All being paid for like Medicare has been paid for since 1965 seems like a not unreasonable position, but evidently this makes Gillibrand the worst neoliberal in the history of neoliberals.
Not to mention that said tax would REPLACE THE MEDICAL PLAN DEDUCTIONS IN YOUR CURRENT PAYCHECK THAT ARE WELL OVER 4% FOR MOST PEOPLE! But then who is more neoliberal than me?
These replies remind me of how much easier sloganeering is than policy. Everyone loves free college tuition me too. But what about, as is presently being proposed in Rhode Island, free tuition is burdened with terrible measures turning higher ed into a jobs training program?
This is horrific policy that moves toward making it impossible for kids to major in English and history in the guise of a progressive move. Policy details are really important! Take them seriously!
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This Day in Labor History: February 17, 1992. Yale graduate students go on strike. Let's talk about grad school unionization and its importance to the labor movement today.
Graduate student unionization has long been controversial on college campuses. Are graduate students primarily students or apprentices?
The answer should be obvious that all graduate students getting paid for work are workers, but you would be surprised how many liberal faculty members simply cannot accept this idea.
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This Day in Labor History: February 15, 1907. The U.S. and Japan come to the "Gentlemen's Agreement," ending Japanese immigration after racist Californians segregated Asians in schools. Let's talk about how white workers so often place white solidarity over class solidarity.
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Originally, western employers hired the Chinese to do menial work, but the angry response from west coast labor that led to the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first major legislative victory for organized labor in the nation’s history, ended that supply in 1882.
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It's my belief that the real battles in the Democratic Party are much more about how to present an agenda than ideology. Ultimately, even Bernie and Booker see things about 80% the same way. But there are generational divides that matter a lot.

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To be clear, Bernie and AOC are just 70s-style liberals. Booker is a 90s style liberal. There are differences there, yes, but let's not overstate them.
What the real divide in the party on the ground is whether Democrats should put forward big new ideas to set the agenda or whether Democrats should be scared of getting out in front of the agenda. It's generational. It's too many people who came of political age under Clinton.
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