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The Democratic Promise That Could Heal a Broken Nation - Thom Hartmann
Every election cycle, candidates talk about “freedom,” “security,” and “opportunity,” yet ignore the most basic measure of all three: whether ordinary Americans can afford to stay alive.
In the richest nation in the history of planet Earth, millions of Americans are dying from treatable illnesses, rationing insulin, and running GoFundMe campaigns for chemotherapy. This isn’t just a policy failure, it’s a moral collapse.
And it’s the one issue that could unite the country, reshape the Democratic Party, and finally prove that compassion is not weakness, but strength.
When politics becomes personal, policy becomes powerful, and there’s nothing more personal than survival… - Aired on 11/03/2025.