[lbo-talk] Colbert, Dafur, and Dems

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed May 3 12:15:42 PDT 2006


Michael Pollak wrote:


>The most populist conceivable economic platform today would be
>single payer health care. You don't think that could be a vote
>winner?

Oh yes. But that's not populism - that's social democracy! (Just joking.) It has to be sold as universal, though, and not just targeted at the poor and/or uninsured. Raising the min wage is also tremendously popular.

Doug



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