The Digger

By Amanda Buddenbaum June 20, 2018 “We remain the only major country on earth that allows chief executives and stockholders in the health care industry to get incredibly rich, while tens of millions of people suffer because they can’t get the health care they need. This is not what the United States should be about.”[1] So wrote Senator Bernie Sanders in his New York Times Op Ed of September 13, 2017, to announce the introduction of his Medicare for All Act. During his presidential campaign of 2016, Sanders had called for a Medicare for all, single payer system to solve the nation’s health care crisis. The thousands who attended his rallies and joined in his social media network responded enthusiastically. Sanders escalated the demand for single payer health care as he reiterated the message across the country. On that same date, Senator Bernie Sanders, joined by 16 senators, introduced S. 1804, his long awaited Medicare for All Act of 2017.[2] At least four of the cosponsor...

In challenging the honesty of this self-appointed DP neo-mavericky political hack; this self contradicting bloviator on universal human rights principles and his Dem-soc commitment to capitalism and imperialism; on Russiagate, Israel-Palestine and BDS; on "terrorist" Iran and Syria; on Empire, the FED and MIC; his commitment to labor, his DP gatekeeping political rhetoric and, perhaps most importantly, on using healthcare as a validator of his authenticity as champion of public interest, it may be possible to delegitimize the entire rightwing DP as an trustworthy representative of the working class, once and for all. The non-existent, "our democracy" undermining, Trump-Russia collusion which Bernie's bought into wholesale, in spite of the left being in the forefront of debunking this "Washington planners" aka, "deep state" propaganda,  has got nothing on the quid pro quo collusion between sheepdog Bernie and the sheep abattoir that is the D...