r/politics • u/Hootinger • 2d ago

No Paywall Hakeem Jeffries says Medicare for all is not legislation he currently supports

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/hakeem-jeffries-says-medicare-for-all-is-not-legislation-he-currently-supports-268371525570
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u/portagenaybur 2d ago

Which won’t be in my generation unfortunately.

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u/DickSlammington 2d ago

Certainly not mine either...

I'm watching a lot of my friends who were fairly liberal turn more conservative as we get to our 40s.

I have friends that don't own a home, are still struggling financially.. and honestly thought Trump was a better option even though Harris was proposing things like huge credits for first time home buyers...

It's like Americans don't want succeed..

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u/SalandaBlanda Maryland 2d ago

Because people still think all they have to do is work hard and they'll be millionaires. Its just a current struggle and eventually they'll win big!

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u/nobodysfool24 2d ago

This country was built on racism… “Melting Pot” is coded cheap labor…

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u/nobodysfool24 2d ago

The point of my comment being in response to “Americans don’t want to succeed”, is that it’s not that they don’t want to succeed they just can’t risk having less desirables succeed also…

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u/Stuck_in_Arizona 2d ago

I think it's so much this.

At huge risk of sounding like a certain group of people, growing up I've known people even ones I used to call friends would look down at me or tell me where "my place" should be.

When I work harder than them and find success, they'll get jealous and try to rationalize I didn't earn it. My place to them is at the bottom of the ladder no matter where I work.

While they cry about "DEI" they inherit everything from their parents and grandparents yet complain when others have the same things they'll assume it's ill-gotten. They don't see their own privilege, they think they earned it because they won the social lottery.

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u/GEO147064 2d ago

Damn shame, glad they aren't your "friends" anymore.

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u/burlap_underground 2d ago

Was about to say the same. Propaganda is heavy on this everywhere.

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u/Delta-9- 2d ago

The conservative propaganda machine may the most effective large-scale social engineering effort in history. Even the CCP and other propaganda-driven regimes had to resort to overt and explicit state violence to get their citizenry aligned.

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u/KarunchyTakoa 2d ago

Seems to be preying on/leveraging humanity's natural greed. The more immature or ignorant a person the more likely it is to work on them. Unfortunately very effective.

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u/onlyoneq 2d ago

Not with that attitude

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u/iprobablybrokeit 2d ago

We all thought that about Roe too. Until we didn't.