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Here's the thing though. Democrats want this as an add-on to universal public health insurance, because health insurance is considered a universal right, and physical and health education help managing the costs. Republicans want it instead of public health insurance, because they consider staying healthy to be an individual responsibility that the state should not be involved in, and "just exercise and eat healthy" is their response to people complaining about cuts in the healthcare system.
Do Democrats want universal public health insurance? Or does the left want universal public health insurance?
Democrats: (do literally anything.)
Republicans: "OMG THEY'RE RADICAL LEFTIST COMMUNISTS!!"
At this point, I think democrats could use some reverse psychology on them. Here's what democrats should do: "We're going to violently deport all undocumented immigrants, revoke all forms of private and public healthcare, increase police funding by 2000%, force all children into being home schooled, force women to all be trad wives, increase military funding by 2000%, require all citizens to have access to firearms regardless of legal status, and remove all mass transit in favor of more cars." Think of the utopia we'd become!
Does the same thing 10 years later and say it's for their protection. I'm looking at you mask mandates.
Start physical education earlier? PE and playground time type shit started in preschool.
If you want to bring down medical costs pay them directly through the government and ban insurance companies.
Drug company: "We're going to raise the price of drug A."
Proper response: "If you raise the price of your drug we'll ignore your patent and sell it for half the cost so you lose sales"
Medical costs would fall and we'd have a healthier society
Can we do this AND get kids healthy lunches because it’s the right thing to do?
Dems wanted a healthy population to save money, Republicans want a healthy population so they can join the military to kill and die for imperial interest.
No, Republicans don't want a healthy population. They'll like about it to make it sound like it's Dems fault, but none of Republican policy positions actually promote health. They don't support informed eating (see RFKjr's garbage food pyramid), or affordable health care, they want people to work more and longer, they want them stressed with zero down time, drinking poisoned water and contaminated food, breathing polluted air, and vulnerable to eradicated diseases.
RFK made a statement a while ago about eating healthier and less processed foods, which is completely expected.
What wasnt expected or normal is him listing military readiness as a primary reason for a healthy population. I can't believe I haven't seen anything about people disecting that section of the statement.
Republicans want a dumb population to make more republicans. Malnutrition definitely has negative impacts on education.
Don’t forget ‘and to work longer’!
FWIW that’s what the national school lunch / free lunch program was largely about to begin with 🫠
Work there sometime and watch starving kids in many districts.
Healthy working class to exploit. Not that that means you should be unhealthy as an anti imperialist act. A healthy, informed working class is the most likely to have a successful revolt.
It doesn't matter. None of them care. They'll shrug it off.
Principles mean nothing to GOP voters.
Melania has been busy, somebody else had to step up and copy off Michelle Obama this time.
Thats how you know youre doing something right!