It said 41% of Americans identified as Independent, with Dems and Reps only reaching 27% each.
I'd say especially if the Republicans foist this huge, steaming pile of shit on America with their BBB, even more Republicans will abandon them for a new party.

But here's the thing: while it's true third parties rarely work in this country, what DOES happen is sometimes they replace another formerly major party that's moribund. Like the Republicans replaced the Whigs.
So, as the two major parties become useless (and it's hard to say which is worse) perhaps a new party like Musk's can replace one of them?

Another mistake by willy:

These were among the compromises that had to be made -- along with the infamous 3/5ths clause -- in order to create the country. The problem is that because of the political fracture in the country we are unable to fix things through the amendment process.

If the BBB is successful in curing the country's ills, the GOP will remain in power for the next 12 years.  If it doesn't work, the Dems will take over in 2028 and turn this country back into an open-border shit-hole.

in a couple of years won't notice?
Right.

lying around drunk who are on the Medicaid rolls, you need to get out more in the poorer sections of the Blue inner cities.  

"I wished everyone could get the kind of coverage I get as a federal employee. It’s cheap and covers just about everything short of plastic surgery." - willy
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Make an appointment to have the wax removed from your ears, the blindness removed from your eyes, and psych help to understand what MANY people have been promoting for YEARS. E.g., single payer.

Quoting from:  
http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/politics-and-religion-39/re-there-needs-to-be-cuts-455093
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"I have also posted about one of AOC's early (first term) statements on "single payer" health insurance for all, something Bernie has been campaigning for for years. Someone asked AOC, 'But how will we pay for it?' AOC replied, 'What do you mean? We just pay for it!' I explained that statement in old posts which are returning: "Discussion Board Error! The message you have requested is either invalid or is no longer active."
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"To recap: "The United States spends more on health care than any other country. Annual health expenditures stood at over 4.4 trillion U.S. dollars in 2022 ..." I explained AOC's statement as follows, across ALL health plans and all health services (this looks better as a pie chart of Venn diagram):
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"Inputs: Private insurance premiums (paid by employers and employees), co-pays, gov "inputs" (Medicare/Medicaid), out of pocket expenditures ... add them all up and you get, let's simplify, $5 trillion IN. (Those or similar inputs will remain the same: 'You just pay for it the way you have always paid for it.')  
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"Outputs: Med procedures, medicines, doctors - nurses salaries, office workers salaries, real estate, property and equipment maintenance ... everything DIRECTLY related to patient care. In addition, THE PRIVATE INSURERS take, let's estimate, 20% off the top: 15% to show as profits to their shareholders and 5% to pay top management big salaries and bonuses. That's $4T for patient health-care and $1T for management wealth-care.
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"(A private company, Steward Health Care, bought up several hospitals in MA. Steward management enriched themselves and their shareholders and bankrupted the hospitals which went into bankruptcy in 2024. It is a national trend:  
http://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/07/steward-bankruptcy-hospitals-massachusetts
http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/15-healthcare-bankruptcies-in-2024.html )
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""How do you pay for "it"?" "It" being healthcare.  You use the same or similar funding streams: insurance premiums, co-pays, out of pocket, ... and state and fed funding programs. The same or up to the same $5 T comes in. Cut out the self-enriching private management (and increasingly mis-management) groups, keep the service providers and support staff (now to be paid by a single payer), and you can cut premiums and inputs back to $4 T or you can spend some of the $5 T on improving the health care system (new and improved facilities, etc.) or expanding it.
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"That's MY simplified explanation of "you just pay for it."
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"Premiums, co-pays, taxes, withholding ... go IN ---> [$5 Trillion In]
[$5 Trillion Out] ---> MDs, RNs, support staff, hospitals, patient care, meds, ... go OUT, with [$1 T left over].
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"The now-missing piece that is eliminated is the [$1 Trillion OUT] ---> millionaire managers' salaries and bonuses."
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You can still have SUPPLEMENTAL PRIVATE INSURANCE for those who want more choices or coverages. E.g., private hospital room instead of shared room or ward. Or ...
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http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/ter-general-board-12/not-all-health-plans-are-created-equal-885919
"Not all health plans are created equal
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"The Senator was visiting one of the top hospitals, and during her tour of the floors she passed a room where a male patient was masturbating. "Oh my God", said the Senator, "that's disgraceful, what is the meaning of this?" The doctor replied, "That man has a very serious condition where the testicles rapidly fill with semen. If he doesn't do that 5 times a day, they'll explode, and he would die instantly." "Oh, I am sorry", said the Senator. On the next floor they passed a room where a young nurse was giving a patient oral sex. "Oh my God", said the Senator, "What's happening in there?" The Doctor replied, "Same problem, better supplemental health plan."  "

run in 1992, Bill Clinton would have never been elected President in 1991, and we would have had four more years of George H W Bush.  

…Bill Clinton would never have been elected President…”

run by a UC Berkeley guy who used to write for the NY Times.  Why not just use Raw Story for your source?  I'm sure they agree with this guy.  You couldn't find any major legitimate news source to back up this claim?  I checked with RCP, and they said they don't know and because there are so many factors involved, we may NEVER know.  The real news places are not in line with your source, so what gives on that front?  Why did you pick this guy?  Is he the only one that supports the narrative you are HOPING for?  

You try to shoot the messengers because you can’t contradict the link.  

That’s rich. Half of BigP’s posts are shoot the messenger posts.

Makes no attempt at all to rebut BigP's point.

…what “shoot the messenger” means.  CDL didn’t criticize the message, I.e, the substance of the article.  Instead, he attempted to shoot the messengers - the authors of the article.  

Look at BigPapasans’s reply. The topic is “shooting the messenger”.

Can ChicKenShit REALLY have missed the rest of BPS' sentence, which reads: "because you can’t contradict the link."
ChicKie is such a hack he's only good at busting himself with blatant distortions.
ChicKenShit shits again....