when his plan was basically a tweaked version of a Bernie bill from 2017:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/806/text


That's when I knew there was like zero critical-thinking underpinning the hatred of everyone non-Bernie. Like, first of all, somebody can run on Bernie's actual proposals and that's still not acceptable. And second-of-all, how are you riding so hard for this man and you don't even recognize one of his old proposals when you see it??


This contradiction applies to the single-payer vs public option debate too. A lot of people don't realize that the subsidy structure in a few of the public option proposals (eg. maxed to cover up to 8.5% of income) borrows from the CHIPA bill ("Consumer Health Insurance Protection Act of 2018") Warren introduced last Congress:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/2582/text

which Bernie was a co-sponsor of. Only a couple of years ago.

Bernie and Liz's fingerprints were all over the broader Dem platform even before Biden started making these concessions. I really hate how much of the incivility was due to policy differences that Bernie and Warren were championing like literally a hearbeat ago. Just blind hateful frothing at the mouth for no reason

edit: this is why I have very little sympathy for left complaints about Biden emerging as the likely nominee. Declaring war on the center-left made little political sense if one cared about the issues. I mean it's great Biden's conceding to the left in some areas, but that wasn't guaranteed.


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>he credited bernie for the plan. its technically closer to p
>bootys plan who had a $100k income cap (as opposed to bidens
>$125k). but bernies plan was obviously the root of both.
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