Hacker News Reader

Comment by cddotdotslash | Hacker News Reader

Genuinely curious: what kinds of policies do you see the alternate party implementing that you feel would help you?

https://oecdecoscope.blog/2021/12/13/finlands-zero-homeless-...

Reading that article would be a start. They could also expand section 8 housing. They could also get rid of the countless nonprofits that siphon money away from the homeless. They could tie Social Security cola adjustments more towards housing and rental prices.

They Institute Medicare for all. They could ban the emptying of large amounts of houses by financial capital firms. Which they are already doing sort of. They could end Airbnb. They could ban making it illegal to sleep in a car or sleep on the street.

Or they can just really care.

I could go on, but again this is not a problem of not having the money, I mean we’re supporting two useless wars right now. This is a problem of people not caring or caring for the wrong things.

These policies are antithetical to everything the current GOP stands for. Voting for them will not address your issues. Just about everything you’ve said is considered opinions of “the left”. So, pushing the Democratic Party more to the left seems like the logical choice.

I’d rather suggest a third-party. Look what happened to Bernie Sanders when he tried to push it to the left. Both the Democrats and Republicans are beholden to corporate interest. I’m in no way going to vote for the Republican but I’m not going to vote for the Democrat either. If they want my vote, they have to earn my vote.

  > They Institute Medicare for all.

republicans?

Anyone, I don’t care if it’s Republicans or Democrats. Of course the Democrats are supposed to be the ones who would do this, but they don’t. Obama gave us a head fake of a public option that never happened. Instead what we got is force payments to private health insurance companies.

what i'm asking is (and i think others are too) is: is there any evidence that republicans would support or even propose anything like medicare for all?

for example, is there a draft bill from republicans for such a thing? etc

So the exact opposite of everything the GOP stands for.

It’s the exact opposite of what the Democrats stand for either. I mean they talk like they stand for it but when they’re in power, they do nothing.

Yeah they’re not going to give free money to everyone. With the GOP in power you won’t be sleeping in your car, you’ll be in jail because that’s more aligned with their policies.

"Yes, we have one party here. But so does America. Except, with typical extravagance, they have two of them!"

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/One-party_state

Reply on news.ycombinator.com