Who do you blame for no universal health care in the first place? I blame all the people against it.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

32. I suspect many legislators are invested, and/or

take contributions from the medical-pharma-insurance industry. The industry probably also contributes mightily to dark money groups. We don't usually know the details of who and how much because all that is a secret unless someone is a social media gadfly or something.* Medical-pharma-insurance is one of the most profitable sectors in the country. It's not for nothing that medical care in the U.S. is the most expensive in the world.

You don't get richer by nationalizing profitable business and removing the profit from the equation. And so not rich people pay and pay and pay, and the economic elite make bank. Most politicians from all two parties are complicit at some level or another, and remember that democratic socialism is evil because it seeks to remove profit from critical industries. Remember who AIPAC and other donor groups of the super-wealthy have been targeting lately? Uh-huh.

Despite numerous rivalries, rich people and their wannabes tend to act in concert on their shared interests. The rest of us don't, largely because of the efficient propaganda machine owned by the elite. Been that way since 1776 and isn't getting noticeably better. The purpose of a liberal democracy is to protect the economic elite (as opposed to the hereditary landed nobility) and grow the economy, i.e., to make the richest richer. I'm not saying "trash it;" I'm saying we could recognize it for what it is, then act in our shared interests for a change. But probably not.

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*not to pick on her, but for an example see Chelsea Clinton's much-publicized investment forays into medical services providers and her public bashings of Medicare-for-all plans. GIYF. She''s not an elected politician, but is representative of her social class.