• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    you fucking dumbasses started calling it “communism”

    Oh sure. That was half the joke of 2009. Insurance lobbyists going on TV and predicting America would become Venezuela for getting subsidized private coverage.

    And Democrats were happy to play along. Lieberman filibustered the Public Option from within his own party because the TV news made the bill so unpopular