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by preg_match 9 days ago
While Americans have been primed, it's still relatively new. If any of the new deal proposals were proposed today, everyone would lose their mind.

The dirty secret: half of what makes living in America tolerable comes from new deal policies. Everyone knows it, nobody will say it.

A similar thing goes for the ACA. Republicans hate it, but at the end of the day Americans don't want to be dropped from their insurance plans for having cancer or some genetic defect. Literally nobody wants that, only out-of-touch political talking heads want that.

That's not to say any of these policies are perfect, they all have flaws. But if you ask the American people what they want but carefully never name policy names, it becomes obvious everyone is on the same page.