BC-- HRC has had the experience of having what could have been the first attempt at moving the ball down the field-- toward single-payer healthcare-- flung back at her in 1993.
That it took Romneycare-- a concept from The Heritage Foundation-- to give muscle to getting the ACA through a split Senate in 2012-- should be enough for we political-junkies to give her the benefit of the doubt for her opinion of what is-- and isn’t possible today-- and likely at least the next 5 years or so.
I realize the art of ‘selling to voters’ during a campaign differs starkly from the realities of a post-election administration’s capacity to effect those promises. That HRC is keeping her feet-on-the-ground and not promising the near-impossible means she may be willing to leverage her current position in the polls to attract those voters who are centrists and possibly those remaining sane ® voters that won’t or can’t vote for the RWNJ candidate.
In effect-- in the long view-- she may possibly be assisting down-ticket races that could get a coattail effect from her gaining those voters early-on-- with rationality. And that? Might have the effect of counteracting gerrymandering in advance of the 2020 census-taking and ensuing redistricting.
And sure, that’s quite a few ‘ifs’. But if there’s one candidate out there who has a wealth of experience in almost every position espoused-- we both know who it is.
And that’s why I’m a bit upset at the parsing going on upthread-- over the steps actually required to achieve the possible-- versus the conceptual.
jw1
