{"id":294213,"date":"2017-02-10T18:51:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sanders-ditches-political-revolution-in-obamacare-debate-with-ted-cruz\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T18:51:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:51:02","slug":"sanders-ditches-political-revolution-in-obamacare-debate-with-ted-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sanders-ditches-political-revolution-in-obamacare-debate-with-ted-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders ditches \u201cpolitical revolution\u201d in Obamacare debate with Ted Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Sanders ditches \u201cpolitical revolution\u201d in Obamacare debate with Ted Cruz<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Kate Randall<br \/>\n    <br \/>10 February 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Tuesday night\u2019s CNN debate on Obamacare between Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz was an exercise in cynicism and evasion.<\/p>\n<p>The most notable feature of the event was the performance of Sanders. Where was the champion of the \u201c99 percent\u201d who railed against the \u201cbillionaire class\u201d during the Democratic primary contest? Where was the \u201cdemocratic socialist\u201d who called for a \u201cpolitical revolution?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That Sanders was nowhere to be found. He was replaced by a more \u201creasonable\u201d politician who is more than willing to work with the Trump administration and the Republicans to refashion the Affordable Care Act, keeping its \u201cgood\u201d features and revising its problematic ones.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Sanders even agreed to debate Cruz\u2014an ultra-right Tea Party Republican who stands for a scorched-earth approach to health care and all other social programs\u2014points to an effort to present him as a more \u201cmainstream\u201d politician and integrate him into the leadership of the Democratic Party. The hope is that popular illusions in Sanders that remain from his challenge to Hillary Clinton can be utilized to restore credibility to the Democrats following their electoral debacle. Sanders, who used his campaign to channel mass discontent behind Clinton, is himself fully onboard and highly conscious of his role.<\/p>\n<p>There was nothing genuinely progressive in what Sanders had to propose for reforming the health care system or confronting the health insurance crisis faced by a majority of Americans. As for Cruz, he in turn insulted and patronized questioners from the audience, while dancing around issues as he spouted his pro-corporate,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/02\/10\/obam-f10.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Sanders ditches \u201cpolitical revolution\u201d in Obamacare debate with Ted Cruz By Kate Randall 10 February 2017 Tuesday night\u2019s CNN debate on Obamacare between Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz was an exercise in cynicism and evasion. The most notable feature of the event was the performance of Sanders. Where was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-294213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}