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In reply to the discussion: I am a "CENTRIST" Democrat, have been for 46 years, and am proud to be so! [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)that all sounds sounds pretty much like the establishment Democratic Platform with the exception of "free" healthcare, because no health care is "free" - physicians don't volunteer. There is no "free" healthcare anywhere, just different ways that it is paid for. Believe me, I lived and worked in the UK, and loved the health care, but it wasn't "free." However, at my last in the US, employer, I paid no healthcare premiums, and very little out of pocket - and that was as close to "free" as I have ever seen. So there's that. Universal, affordable and accessible health care for everyone in whatever form will get it to people is the goal, and Democrats aren't limiting themselves to just one method or bust. The ACA is the closest we've ever come, that that was acheived by "establishment" "Centrist" president.
What is in the platform is (affordable and accessible) Universal Healthcare, a woman's right to choose, free and fair elections, science, "a free and open internet at home and abroad" and a pathway to Marijuana legalization.
I think you may be way more "establishment Democrat" than you think, along with most people in this country. But you really are a "radical leftist" when it comes to the GOP platform, if that helps.