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Probably lots of reasons. At least one of which is that too many don't want to pay for services for people who "don't deserve it".
Another is a religion-based idea that helping people is bad for them because they won't work without 'motivation'
Doesn’t healthcare poll well across party lines?
About 60% of conservatives don't want it and they've been able to stop progress since Lieberman killed the public option in Obamacare. There's also the issue that while 90% of more liberal Americans want some form of federal assistance, pharma and health insurance lobbies Dem representatives very hard.
He's a guy I like to bring up for the both-siderists that like to pretend to be smart when talking about the "extremes on both sides", LOL.
My retort? "You mean like Lieberman? That kind of extremist on the Democratic Party?"
Usually I get confused looks because the people that talk about "extremists on both sides" are either just reactionary centrists or just low-info trying to come off as being above it all. Either way, they are usually just clueless and full of shit.
Usually they want to talk about someone like AOC or some nameless activists that something something BLM/Antifa/"defund the police". Or trans or the "open borders" that we don't actually have and did not have under Biden or Obama...
Yes but plenty of things do when there's no active push against it via the propaganda networks. For example environmentalism, rail expansion, and green energy generally have a solid bit of Republican support especially in rural areas so long as there's isn't any active war drumming against them.