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We got to see how eager Democrats were to pass the bailouts for their donors, followed by watching the party kill the public option like they intended to do from the very beginning.
The difference between Obama's plan and Clinton's plan was that Obama's had no individual mandate and a public option. We voted for Obama because his plan was better than Clinton's. What we got was Clinton's plan.
Plus bailouts for wall street. Plus no accountability for those who caused the housing crisis. Minus closing Gitmo. Minus assistance for the worthless individual humans whose lives were ruined by the housing crisis. Minus codifying Roe.
But yeah, we don't dare try to fix healthcare! Look at how unpopular that and that alone is! It's certainly not because we half-assed it and made it perfectly clear that Democrats are beholden to moneyed interests and moneyed interests only.
Don't forget, large groups of Millennials did "take to the streets" in open protest of the way things were handled... only to be mocked by the very party and voters who claimed to be on our side. People tend to look at 2016 through a very narrow view rather than a series of missteps by Democrat politicians and moderate voters over 8 years. And 8 years later moderates continue to insist that as the majority of the Democrat party they can pick a pro-corporate, strike blocking, genocide supporting trash candidate in the primaries but have zero responsibility for what happens in the general. I'm so sick of leftists and progressives being told they're minor wings but somehow are 100% responsible for what happens in the general elections. Both can't be true.