Dems wanted a healthy population to save money, Republicans want a healthy population so they can join the military to kill and die for imperial interest.
Don’t forget ‘and to work longer’!
Republicans want a dumb population to make more republicans. Malnutrition definitely has negative impacts on education.
FWIW that’s what the national school lunch / free lunch program was largely about to begin with 🫠
Work there sometime and watch starving kids in many districts.
Healthy working class to exploit. Not that that means you should be unhealthy as an anti imperialist act. A healthy, informed working class is the most likely to have a successful revolt.
RFK made a statement a while ago about eating healthier and less processed foods, which is completely expected.
What wasnt expected or normal is him listing military readiness as a primary reason for a healthy population. I can't believe I haven't seen anything about people disecting that section of the statement.
No, Republicans don't want a healthy population. They'll like about it to make it sound like it's Dems fault, but none of Republican policy positions actually promote health. They don't support informed eating (see RFKjr's garbage food pyramid), or affordable health care, they want people to work more and longer, they want them stressed with zero down time, drinking poisoned water and contaminated food, breathing polluted air, and vulnerable to eradicated diseases.
And paying for health insurance; come on, their lobby doesn't spend so much money on Republican donors to be forgotten about!
Start physical education earlier? PE and playground time type shit started in preschool.
If you want to bring down medical costs pay them directly through the government and ban insurance companies.
Drug company: "We're going to raise the price of drug A."
Proper response: "If you raise the price of your drug we'll ignore your patent and sell it for half the cost so you lose sales"
Medical costs would fall and we'd have a healthier society
Can we do this AND get kids healthy lunches because it’s the right thing to do?
Democrats: (do literally anything.)
Republicans: "OMG THEY'RE RADICAL LEFTIST COMMUNISTS!!"
Does the same thing 10 years later and say it's for their protection. I'm looking at you mask mandates.
At this point, I think democrats could use some reverse psychology on them. Here's what democrats should do: "We're going to violently deport all undocumented immigrants, revoke all forms of private and public healthcare, increase police funding by 2000%, force all children into being home schooled, force women to all be trad wives, increase military funding by 2000%, require all citizens to have access to firearms regardless of legal status, and remove all mass transit in favor of more cars." Think of the utopia we'd become!
the democrats are too afraid of appearing mean and unhinged.
Ever since Howard Dean got excited once
The democrats obsession with 'professionalism' is what alienates them from a broader voter base. They refuse to let their candidates be relatable to average people.
A 'dumb yokel' democrat would be a presidential winner. Carter, Clinton, Obama all won on charm, not policy.
What dems are you talking about here?
Pretty sure that biden increased deportations during his term. That obomber didn't do shit for public healthcare. That libs fully support compulsory education, the MIC, car dependency, etc...
It's supposed to be sarcasm, but realistically you're just describing the dem platform.
Democrats: NOO!!!! We're fully capitalist! Let's collaborate and work together, fash buddies!
Here's the thing though. Democrats want this as an add-on to universal public health insurance, because health insurance is considered a universal right, and physical and health education help managing the costs. Republicans want it instead of public health insurance, because they consider staying healthy to be an individual responsibility that the state should not be involved in, and "just exercise and eat healthy" is their response to people complaining about cuts in the healthcare system.
Do Democrats want universal public health insurance? Or does the left want universal public health insurance?
A bunch of them do, yes. Democratic party is a coalition of a lot of smaller groups that want a lot of different things.
My point was that catching Republicans in this seeming contradiction isn't the "gotcha" that people think it is, because they advertise health and exercise for very different reasons, namely to strip away the last bits of public health insurance that Americans still have.
You're probably right in that the left is more united about reforming health insurance than Democrats are overall. But it's important not to miss the big picture.
The big picture is health insurance and food corporations have captured our political and legal process, I agree. It needs completely rooting out, and anyone against it, republican or democrat, should be removed from office. Citizens United and any other form of legal corporate money in politics needs gutting.
Do Democrats want universal public health insurance?
I'll take the bait and answer with the obvious: No.
Republicans want it
lol nah. It's just some guy on xitter.
To be fair, Republicans would have called her a radical commie for saying that, and also for not saying it. And for saying something different.
"What if instead of the communist atheist deep state vax jab, we just expose people to a weakened version of the coronavirus? 🤔"
It doesn't matter. None of them care. They'll shrug it off.
Principles mean nothing to GOP voters.
I will say the presidential fitness tests were awful to go through, as someone that didn't do well on them. Nothing we did in PE class prepared us for pull ups or situps, so it was always me laying on my back and one of the cheerleaders holding my feet down, encouraging me to do one situp.
I've never done a situp in my life. I first started trying at home sometime before 4th grade--I remember the room I lay in, trying my hardest. We moved between 3rd and 4th grade.
Yeah, imo the way those are usually done in schools is worse than useless. Nobody teaches you how to e.g. do a pull-up much less how to progress up to one if you can't. So a lot of kids get tests thrown at them they can't pass, then just move on with the idea that they're physically inferior in some way.
I want to see Trump passing this presidential fitness test first...
Melania has been busy, somebody else had to step up and copy off Michelle Obama this time.
Animal farm windmill
Thats how you know youre doing something right!
If their overlords give them a poop cake, they happily eat them, if people who actually care for them give them a healthy meal, they'll throw it to the ground, claiming "I'm not part of the system", and "I'm an adult" while acting like children.
… I go to my favorite hot dog stand
And the dude says,
"You come here all the time! Here's one for free"
I said, "Man! What I look like? A charity case?"
… I took it and threw it on the ground!
I don't need your handouts!
I'm an adult!
Please!
You can't buy me hot dog, man!
Can your president pass his own fitness test?
If dems actually wanted to win, they would nominate Michelle.
Too bad that libs are fash collaborators.
I've said it about George. I've said it about Hillary. I've thought it about the Kennedys. I'll say it about Michelle: I do not want a single family to have an outsized hold on our politics. Literally anyone else with similar stances.
I know Michelle polls well, but I have never once gotten the impression she has any interest in holding office.
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