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I agree with most, if not all, if this; but I can't help but take note that your middle paragraph revolves around Pelosi. To my recollection, that is not what the FTV advocates were focusing on, and I'm specifically recalling how BJG, every time she found herself backed into a corner on this issue, would just go "but what about the 60 million Americans without health insurance?" The Speaker vote was just a means to the goal of M4A.
Yeah I sensed the same thing, while writing it I was like "damn I'm strawmanning a bit too hard here" and almost deleted it all.
I guess I still don't fully understand what the FTV path was so my critique is lacking (if you wanna elaborate on your point I'm curious to hear). But my overall point stands, that looking to 'DC spectacles' as a means to make political gains such as M4A will not work on its own. BJG's counter argument seemed to be that yes, FTV will probably fail, but that it could spark more working class movement. This I am extremely skeptical of.
It's confusing because I'm too uninformed to really say if the strategy itself is bad or good. I'm just more convinced than ever that it was non-consequential.
I agree with most, if not all, if this; but I can't help but take note that your middle paragraph revolves around Pelosi. To my recollection, that is not what the FTV advocates were focusing on, and I'm specifically recalling how BJG, every time she found herself backed into a corner on this issue, would just go "but what about the 60 million Americans without health insurance?" The Speaker vote was just a means to the goal of M4A.
Minor point but I wanted to put it out there.
Yeah I sensed the same thing, while writing it I was like "damn I'm strawmanning a bit too hard here" and almost deleted it all.
I guess I still don't fully understand what the FTV path was so my critique is lacking (if you wanna elaborate on your point I'm curious to hear). But my overall point stands, that looking to 'DC spectacles' as a means to make political gains such as M4A will not work on its own. BJG's counter argument seemed to be that yes, FTV will probably fail, but that it could spark more working class movement. This I am extremely skeptical of.
It's confusing because I'm too uninformed to really say if the strategy itself is bad or good. I'm just more convinced than ever that it was non-consequential.