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What’s killing this country isn’t a lack of compassion on the left. It’s a lack of empathy. Let me explain the difference, because it matters more than anything else in this debate. Ro Khanna isn’t wrong: it wouldn’t be expensive to lower the Medicaid age to 50. Mark Cuban isn’t wrong: you could run a profitable Medicaid hospital. But neither understands the Pareto principle, the 80/20 rule, which holds that roughly 80% of consequences flow from 20% of causes. It CAN work for 80% of the population. The trouble is the rest. About 5% are truly ill and genuinely expensive to treat, which might still be worth it. But another 15% are fraudsters, hypochondriacs, and complainers who drain the system without justification. I have a relative who runs a Medicaid program in a blue state. Eighty percent of her patients aren’t a problem at all. That’s exactly why Cuban’s idea is dangerous. A pilot program naturally screens out the fraud and the worst cases, then posts numbers that look like a resounding success. Then you scale it. You can no longer cherry-pick patients, and the model collapses the moment it has to serve everyone. This is the number one problem I see with Democrat normies. They can’t think outside their own bubble. And the irony is they’d call that a failure of empathy, when it’s the opposite. Here’s the distinction they miss. Empathy is opening your mind to the thoughts and attitudes of others. It’s not a “good” word or a “bad” word. It’s neutral. What most liberals actually run on is sympathy: experiencing another person’s situation through the lens of your own values, your own thoughts, your own attitudes. Take a guy who loves drinking and driving. One day he kills someone. The sympathetic approach turns inward. You flash back to the night you had one too many and got away with it, and you assume he just made a mistake. The empathetic approach asks a harder question: why did that guy actually drive drunk? Many liberals reflexively assume the best. “Maybe he has chronic pain.” “Maybe he was abused as a kid.” “Maybe he was sober 20 years and had an accidental relapse.” Those are all real stories behind some drunk drivers. But none of them address the inconvenient truth: some people just really enjoy driving drunk. And if you don’t believe that some people really enjoy driving drunk, you didn’t attend college in the last century. Real empathy means understanding the negative cultural attitudes of others, not just the sympathetic ones. And some people, some entire subcultures, genuinely enjoy scamming Medicaid. Until you understand that motivation honestly, you’ll never design a solution that holds. Look at how we actually beat drunk driving. If we’d tried to solve it by curing alcoholism and PTSD alone, the guys who get drunk a few times a year to go tear around corners would still be killing people today. What worked was a penalty system blind to sympathy. A cop doesn’t care why you’re drunk behind the wheel. Because Democrats lead with sympathy, they let patients who want more care simply ask for more care, and assume the request is always honest. That’s how you end up with learning centers billing for autistic children who aren’t there. The overwhelming majority of Medicaid patients don’t need that service. A tiny fraction truly do. Sympathy can’t tell the two apart. Empathy can. And this is the real problem with what Mark proposes. You can absolutely run a single hospital on commie values. One building, hand-picked patients, a closed system. It works beautifully right up until it has to scale. Without an empathetic filter, one that accounts for the good AND bad actors doesn’t survive contact with the full population. Bleeding-heart idealists are sympathetic, not empathetic. That’s exactly why their model always looks perfect in the pilot and collapses in the real world Communists don’t account for the empathetic, walk a mile in his shoes, fact Stalin enjoyed murdering dissidents

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Who wants to guess where Norway imports some of its fruit from? 😊

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