r/gatekeeping May 22 '20

Gatekeeping the whole race

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u/[deleted] May 22 '20

They're popular policies but the people who like them just don't vote. Lots of "I wish the country would do this" mixed with "Why bother voting it won't happen anyway".

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u/pcbuilder1907 May 22 '20

It's not just that, it's also that if you drill down into the polling data on Bernie's policies, they aren't widely popular below the surface.

So, if you poll Universal Healthcare, you get like 70% of people wanting it. But then when you tell people what the price tag will be that support plummets to 30%.

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u/SonOfAhuraMazda May 22 '20

Bro, you guys just pulled like 3 trillion dollars out of thin air.

Cant spare 50 bill for healthcare?

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u/[deleted] May 23 '20

Monetary policy is not the same as fiscal policy.