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New York Times Just Asking: If Universal Child Care Helps Rich People, Should We Have It At All?
https://www.wonkette.com/p/new-york-times-just-asking-if-universal

Mayor Mamdani, Sen. Warren: Everyone benefits from universal childcare (USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2026/03/19/warren-mamdani-child-care-costs/89184279007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260320/p99#a260320p99

I still remember the abject horror I felt when some "ConservaMom" on twotter back in the day 'pointed out' to those who wanted free and universal health care that a Ferrari would no more have value if everyone had one.
I don't know what exactly I replied, but it got me an instant block and I'd be ashamed of myself if it hadn't.
It really is a brain worm. But is there any hope for the affected? I think even in my most demented free-market-believer day…

Re “apply the pressure anyway:” that’s advice I got from…Keith Ellison.
I was part of a citizen group pressuring him to vote for the ACA when he was in the House. He met with us, and gave us an impassioned speech about universal care and how the ACA was a good first step but insufficient, relating it to the less-remembered civil rights acts of the 1950s that laid the groundwork for the big one in 1964.
Somebody from the group finally asked him, “Why are we meeting with you? You’re already convinced!”
He replied (paraphrasing here): “I •need• your pressure. I need it even if I already agree. If you’re pressuring me, then I can get on the floor of the House and say ‘My constituents are beating down the doors of my office! This has tremendous support!’ I can tell my colleagues in private about how agitated voters are. If you apply pressure, I can pass that pressure forward. I need you to do it! •That• is why you’re meeting with me.”
And now Keith Ellison is MN Attorney General. He’s already started doing the right thing. Follow his advice, and apply that pressure!

A: "Oh my god, he is *you*. If you were mayor, the first two things you'd do is fill on a pothole in a bike lane, and install bidets in your office."
Me: "pretty much, yep!"
#NYC #Mamdani