Possibly because I don’t know if there are any democratic-socialists here. 
It comes from the World Health Organization rankings, and the fact that almost everyone in the US knows someone personally who’s been fucked over by the health insurance system.
I really don’t want to debate national health care, it’s depressing.
Do you reeckon america will ever get over "NO SOCIELISTISM!! "
Better dead than red.
Most of the people who don’t have health care or health insurance don’t want to spend the money 
a minority can’t afford it.
Do I think America will ever become Socialist? No. But I think once the theft and corruption in our capitalist economic system becomes too obvious for the majority to ignore, popular pressure will result in “socialist” policies being enacted.
In my experience, there are many who keep using that word, but I do not think it means what they think it means.
So comrade, as Nehru once stated,
would you agree that we are better off living in a troubled world than a perfect one? That it is better not all detriments to the human condition be solved?
I don’t agree with that at all - we’re better off living in a perfect world, by virtue of the definition of “perfect.” Not that a “perfect world” is even possible, but Nehru seems to be providing a convenient excuse for not even trying to better the human condition.
I am really starting to think that this part of the forum needs to be blasted off the face of the earth.
FYI that’s not a picture from an anti-health-care rally. I mean, the filename says it’s an “abortion rights rally.” Self-debunking FTW, which is hilarious considering it’s supposed to be an attack on “leftist media bias” or whatever.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if that was in fact a picture of Obama’s Inauguration. There haven’t been that many people on the mall for a while, and as we can see, the propagandists who produce images like this clearly have no shame.
Well, it can’t really be denied that US news stations are immensely biased (with Fox leading the parade) in their reporting.
Yes, but Corporate bias is nonpartisan (with the exception of FOX).
And NBC. And ABC. and every other news network. Fox is about the same. Liberals would obviously think otherwise, since they see what they are saying as right and taken for granted, whereas a conservative does not.
Also, don’t get news shows confused with talking head’s shows. Hannity and the like are not a source of legitimate news, nor are similar shows on NBC, CNN, etc.
I know you desperately want to equate the them, but which network aside from FOX sponsors political rallies?
For-profit news is biased towards whatever helps their bottom line, but there’s only one network that transparently represents a single political party.
Which networks besides Fox were specifically omitted from the white house because they might not perfectly agree with the president?
FOX is in the white house press pool just like every other network. If the administration decided to wait a few months before sending officials to be interviewed at the FOX studio, well, there are consequences for being a mouthpiece of the opposition party, and one of those consequences is that the majority party might overlook you when you ask for airtime. But “not being an opposition mouthpiece” is NOT the same thing as being politically biased.
The idea of liberal media bias is hilarious if you actually pay attention to what gets aired on the news.
Certainly not Fox News. They’ve been to the Obama White House many times and will be again. Which, if there were really a left-wing bias in the media, you’d know.
What I’ve found that, if you talk with these people, they don’t even know what a “liberal” is. They have a caricatured, distorted idea what they THINK a liberal is, but they might as well be talking to that enormous strawman they erect for what good it’ll do them in political discourse.
I’m actually pondering opening a “Ask a Liberal” thread, but I’ll keep that discussion in this thread until I believe it’s warranted to create a new one.
True, Fox news is in now, but they were originally rejected, while all other networks were allowed in.