Thread trying for some nuance re: #ForceTheVote for #MedicareForAll
1) It is immoral and urgent that people are not getting healthcare they need and deserve.
1) It is immoral and urgent that people are not getting healthcare they need and deserve.
2) It is immoral and urgent that the current system causes so much financial and psychological stress to people who just want healthcare.
3) It is heinous that Wall Street, pharma, insurers, for-profit hospitals, non-profit hospitals, rightwing politicians, and "moderate" plutocratic politicians fight #MedicareForAll, allowing ongoing mass death and mass suffering from preventable illness and financial toxicity.
4) It is a challenge that people who want health justice and see the urgent immorality of the status quo fear #MedicareForAll because the transformation risks disruption, that despite seeing the harms of the status quo, they so heavily discount them compared to those of change.
5) It is disappointing to see unions, left voices, progressive groups, & #MedicareForAll groups drag their feet, lack a viable strategy, and/or fail to constantly communicate the urgent immorality of the status quo. They are not bad people, they are friends/allies, but we must…
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... be honest about the inadequacies and harms of the non-profit industrial complex, careerism, professionalization, neoliberal unions, and concentrated leadership.
... be honest about the inadequacies and harms of the non-profit industrial complex, careerism, professionalization, neoliberal unions, and concentrated leadership.
6) Tone policing is bad, people deserve their anger.
7) Respectability politics is bad. Activists, especially grassroots activists and ordinary people, don't have to be perfect.
8) Professionalized activists, especially ones who are foremost in the media, and especially ones who actually benefit from harmful controversy that gets attention but is counterproductive to building power, should be called out when they are causing harm.
9) All of us, when we are emotionally able to, must do more to act with discipline and with strategy in mind. We should be much better at focusing on our goals, on humility, on deep listening, on empathy, and on not assuming worst intentions.
10) All of us should realize that arguing and debating are bogs. That is not where hearts and minds are shifted.
11) If you like what people are fighting for but not *how* they're fighting for it, your options aren't just silent inaction vs. criticism.
Organize *with* them, offering support, offering coaching, asking questions about strategy/tactics, and role modeling your preferred tone.
Organize *with* them, offering support, offering coaching, asking questions about strategy/tactics, and role modeling your preferred tone.
12) If you're focused on the drama and not on the fight, you're feeding the drama.
END) Let's work with the energy of #ForceTheVote and see what it can yield.
At worst, it's a chance to teach people about the current system's failures and about #MedicareForAll's benefits, while organizing and building power.
At worst, it's a chance to teach people about the current system's failures and about #MedicareForAll's benefits, while organizing and building power.
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