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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have older teen boys and I agree with OP but with a caveat that they would not agree with the label of being more “left” than my generation.  Fox and friends (and establishment Dems) have done their work of associating the “left” and “socialist” with negativity.   But here is what they think:

- there are few differences between GOP and Dems 
- politicians from both sides of aisle are tied to corporate money 
- while they sympathize with the plight of Palestinians they would never speak out about the issue (or any other) on college campuses bc of the fear of doxxing and retribution.  In other words, they clearly see their freedom to speak being squashed.  
- they do not agree that so much federal funding should be spent on the military and do not agree with funding foreign wars 
[b]- they also do not agree with so much money being allocated to govt contractors and think the money would be more efficient if services provided by govt bc it cuts out the middle man (they see the 30-40 years since Reagan as proof that the idea that the private sector can always provide services better than then public sector silly since costs have only gone up for the individual without improvement of service)[/b]
- they see huge issues with both Dem and GOP policies on immigration/healthcare/housing).

They would support a candidate who wants to overhaul immigration (allow more legal, figured out how to stop the illegal), reform healthcare (single payer is fine with them compared to the current system) and help lower housing costs (through subsidizing, more building, etc)

They are not tied to a candidate from a certain party or who labels themselves as any one thing.  They want a candidate who is willing to acknowledge and identify problems (even if those are problems from policies that the candidate’s own party supported) and have ideas (any ideas!) for how to solve them.  [/quote]

In a single payer system (the government) for health care, where is the signal from the consumer (patient) back to the government that a consumer is paying too much for health care.  Uncle Sugar is collecting the taxes and paying the medical bills.  There's no competition between providers. They hit the mark where supply meets demand and then every provider figures out it's a rigged game and takes their abilities elsewhere in a global economy.

You've seen DoD/Pentagon $800 hammers. The government doesn't do that well.  Now you want the government to do that for 340 million people?[/quote]

The $800 hammers are charged by private contractors. I trust the government employees more than private companies which are there just to fleece the tax payers. The medicare and medicaid programs are run better than the big private health insurance company I work for, which is deny, deny, deny.[/quote]

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