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Thanks for spotlighting Karl Smith's Voter Education Project, and your careful summary. I mostly agree with Smith's progressive views, but wish he'd place more emphasis on universal healthcare, aka Medicare for All (M4A).

Smith talks about "freedom." Here's an M4A perspective: https://medium.com/@idember/9-freedoms-of-healthcare-justice-5077bdbff9f2 .

I like his mentioning the interdependence of community and business. Again, there's a public policy connection with M4A. See https://businessfreedom1.weebly.com and https://medium.com/@idember/universal-healthcare-boon-to-business-owners-3ff561951da1 .

That said, I am disappointed that Smith's website reprised the tired old GOP-vs-Dems framing. Better to frame it strictly as extreme wealth vs ordinary folks, regardless of party labels. (For a better model, see billionaire Nick Hanauer's progressive "pitchfork economics" framing, https://PitchforkEconomics.com and https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014 .)

Regarding M4A in particular, Dems have done us no favors. The Affordable Care Act has marginally benefited many people but has needlessly shoveled trillions of dollars into corporate bank accounts — exacerbating inequality while perpetuating medical bankruptcies and draining the US Treasury, among other ills.

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