DISMANTLING Kyle Kulinski's Top 5 Issues | Secular Talk BREAKDOWN

Kyle Kulinski is perhaps the most famous millennial leftist in the world whose top five issues are…

In a previous answer I explained the wisdom of his “fight for at least one” voting standard, but in this answer I’ll dive deeper into each of those issues to shed light on what people like me from the other side of the political spectrum think of them…

1. Medicare for All

Before we implement Medicare-for-All on the federal-level, we should first implement it on the state-level, i.e. Medicare-for-All-Vermonters or Medicare-for-All-Californians. If Kyle Kulinski is right that single-payer will reduce costs and increase quality then why not prove it on the state-level first? The thing with most policies whether they be in life or politics is that they sound good on paper, i.e. going to the gym after work. Great idea, right? But most people don’t do it. This is because there are tradeoffs to even the best ideas. Despite good intentions and high hopes, the vast majority of ideas in business, life, and politics fail. How many business ideas have you had in your life that you thought would make you rich? How many relationships have you thought were “the one” to only end in broken glass and broken hearts? The fact we’re so often wrong about things we’re so certain about in our personal life should humble our political views, especially because the failures of our political views will have much greater consequences than a slashed tire. We should therefore make sure to ground even the best sounding political policies in more localized success before having our way with all of America. The beauty of the American system is we have 50 states where each state has its own government to test out the best ideas, i.e. laboratories of innovation! This is after all a similar path our more progressive neighbors to the north took whereby they past single-payer on the provincial level first and then overtime they grew it out with broad bipartisan support.

Kyle Kulinski falsely claims “Medicare-for-All” is a centrist position because a couple of European countries offer single-payer, but America is a much bigger country in terms of population size and economy. If Medicare-for-All was imposed on the entire United States the closest equivalent would be if the entire European Union imposed a single version of single-payer, which even progressive Europeans would adamantly oppose. The bottomline is despite what Kyle says about his position being “centrist” it’s not in American, European, global, or historical terms. It’s a radical position. Own it! There’s nothing like it in size or scope anywhere in the world and so because of this fact we should first implement it successfully on the state-level and then we can talk about passing it at the federal level on a purely partisan basis (polls show majority of Americans support “Medicare-for-All” but that support dips as soon as they learn more about it. A more effective and official gauge of what Americans think of something is the almighty vote. The only time single-payer was put up for a vote was in the Democrat-majority state of Colorado where it then proceeded to lose on a direct ballot proposition by a resounding 79%. Before the vote, many Coloradans adamantly argued, much like Kyle, that the majority of Coloradans supported it! They were wrong.)

2. UBI

3. Free College

4. Living Wage

5. Ending the Wars