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"The short-term strategy is, win the House of Representatives," stated the former president, garnering applause. "Because that's going to be the circuit breaker that will give us control of one major component of the federal government. With that as a bulwark, we're now able to block some of the worst impulses that are coming out of this White House."

The former president laid out a two-pronged strategy for Democrats: to reclaim a House majority next year, and to work on honing the party's messaging in the coming years.

"Long term, let's tell a story, a better story about who we are as Americans and what we share," Obama said, according to excerpts shared with CBS News. "We have to tell the story that makes people who feel outside that process, we've got to bring them back in."

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[–] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Blue no matter who" doesn't work and it's time they realize this shit and either start putting forward actual good candidates instead of piles of human excrement like Newsome and Harris or dismantle the party and allow an actual leftist party to take its place.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I think one of the main things that we need is to get a group of people together to write up an actual health care plan that covers all Americans and show that it costs the same or less of what we pay now. Then drill it into everyone's heads that they are being stolen from and cheated every day of their lives by our current healthcare system.

The people who think we have great health care options need to realize we aren't in the top 40 countries in the world for keeping a kid alive to 1 nor 5 years old.

The number of white women are around 3x as likely to die during a pregnancy/birth than those in Canada or the UK, and the reason I say white is because black mothers are around 6x more likely to die.

We are paying far more than anyone else in the world for healthcare and I would call the service we receive for our money absolute dog shit.

If we could get the population to agree on that, we can say fuck the Democrats, fuck the Republicans, fuck their entire existence being to divide us and trick us into voting against our best interests, but anyone who is going to walk into congress is going to put forward the healthcare bill exactly how we wrote it with no changes or we throw every person in Congress out of the country permanently and put new members in the next day.

"But the insurance companies" <- fuck them, they are out of business, the legislation was the permanent insurance for everyone, you don't need to pay someone every month, you are already paying it out of your taxes