One of the reason progressive-leaning centrist voters state that they are picking the "pragmatic “ choice is that they believe these pols will produce incremental reform. The question is does the goals of the base voter match those of the Democratic elite.
Those of us on the left often question the sincerity of such pols given the system of legalized corruption that is designed to ensure that established systems such as private health insurance remain in place. That is — no matter how well meaning a pol is — surrounding themselves with people or taking money from those such as the ones who are now fighting against Colorado’s single payer effort cannot be good for reform, incremental or otherwise:
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In short, no one but the elite wins in a corrupt system because of the system. Looking to the individual or a single policy is where most typically misunderstands the problem.
A few months ago , I remember this Colorado single payer effort being pushed by many incrementalist in response to Sanders’ bolder proposal. Implicitly, the arguments seemed to imply this Colorado effort was or is a Democratic effort since it was offered as a rebuttal to a Denmocratic primary debate.
Yet the real picture is that of parts of the Democratic establishment siding with private insurance. In short, the left does not trust the centrist incrementalist approach because of the gap between what is said and what we see done in practice such as what is happening in Colorado.