I don't like your energy here but I'll agree that it's not important to me to "live my authentic self" when I'm doing perfunctory things in Public.
Insofar as they're rebeling against capitalism to provide for the needs of the people. Most Leftist belief systems would favor insulin costing nothing or be priced on a sliding scale based on your ability to pay.
11 dollars for a vial/pen would still be cheap.
I could see both Oregon and Washington wanting to jump on that band wagon.
Sometimes that may be true but neurologically, empathy is often driven by experience and most people have a relative with diabetes and many people have a diabetic relative who struggles financially with it. This would be hard to demonize.
We lost abortion because Democrats thought it was more important to keep it as a wedge issue to rustle up votes than to enshrine it in law.
So are your saying that voting for Democrats or Republicans is the same thing?
They're not cosplaying a liberal, it's a pretty normal take among Leftists who criticize liberals. And more broadly, Democrats made "being the lesser evil" their main campaign strategy for so long that people are getting numb to it.
Some people feel like if you can't provide society with your labor, you should still be fed, clothed, and housed.
There have been plenty of people involved in those programs talking about them online since they were repealed and that they aren't motivated at the politcal level by altruism and that they have done an incredible amount of good in the world are both true statements.
Broadly speaking I agree but I don't criticize shifting from exploitative to reasonably priced. An improvement is still an improvement.
We got Trump again because instead of sticking with the plan and stepping aside, Biden insisted on being reelected and instead of the DNC looking at his obvious decline and insisting on a primary, they fell in line.