Subject: Formulas against fascist propaganda
From: Demetrio Fábrega <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:20:42 -0500

PERSONAL.
 
  PLEASE DELIVER TO MR. JOHN PODESTA.

  Mrs. Clinton should be protected against fascist
  propaganda tactics. The sooner she begins that
  fight, the better for her. Sanders is destroying her
  and he is practically nothing in comparison with
  what Trump must be preparing.
 
The following may be of assistance, although it should be
presented in a more readable form, with lines not so long,
with the same size type. It has been prepared with someone
who was born long before the computer appeared and does
not know how e-mails work.

FIRST.
Senator Sanders has given Mrs. Clinton a great opportunity to denounce his rhetoric of revolution. He referred to free health care for everybody in Cuba and free education at all levels as it exists in Cuba. But he does not mention that it is practically impossible to obtain such changes over night or even in two periods in the Presidency, unless there is an armed revolution, like the Russian Bolshevik revolution or Mao’s two decades of revolutionary war in China or the Cuban armed revolution.
 
(The following paragraph was taken from Trudeau’s speech. The rest includes other comments in a text sent by THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS).
 
SECOND.
“But those of us who seek to build a better future for ourselves and for our children and grandchildren also understand that there’s a limit to how far vision and values will get you. Progressive ideals mean little without a practical and pragmatic plan for real change”.
 
THIRD.
Is Mr. Sanders thinking that asking the people to stand up is going to have the same fast results as an armed revolution? In communist Russia they used propaganda to make the young people think as the leaders wanted. They said that “children, like soft wax, are very malleable and they should be moulded into good Communists” that they had to “rescue children from the harmful influence of the family, that they had to nationalize them”.
Maybe this kind of propaganda explains to some degree why Mr. Sanders and Mr. Trump attract the young people, but these thoughts do not fit in the United States.  Our democracy does not allow that kind of propaganda. It does not allow an armed revolution.
I definitely will want to be in the White House with Mr. Sanders’ help because he is passionately conscious of many things that have to be changed in America, but those things are only possible gradually. I don’t think there is room for Fidel Castro’s policies in America. I don’t think the American people want to change our democracy for the ideals Mr. Sanders praises in Cuba. Even in Cuba, Castro had to impose a dictatorship and it took decades to obtain changes that have existed in the United States decades and decades ago. I am sure that the American people don’t want a dictatorship to get free health assistance.
 
FOURTH.
“Social Security is the most powerful tool available to lift people out of poverty. Nearly two thirds of seniors depend on Social Security for the majority of their income, and millions more children and adults depend upon survivors and disability benefits. According to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities analysis of Census data, Social Security kept 21 million Americans out of poverty in the last year alone. All told, that’s more people than any other government program”.

“Social Security isn’t a luxury — it’s a lifeline”.
“Of course, we don’t have to sit by and to do nothing. Since its beginning, Social Security has been adjusted from time to time, and that’s what we need to do now. With some modest adjustments, it is possible to keep the system solvent for decades more, even while increasing benefits”.

“Social Security works. No one runs out of benefits, and payments don’t rise and fall with the stock market. Despite scare tactics from Republicans in Congress, the facts are clear. Social Security has a $2.8 trillion surplus. If we do nothing, Social Security will be safe for the next 18 years, and after that will continue to pay three-quarters of benefits through the end of the century”.

“For the millions of Americans who rely on Social Security, the situation got worse this year. For just the third time since 1975, seniors who receive Social Security—along with many who receive veterans’ benefits, Social Security disability benefits, and other monthly payments—aren’t receiving any annual increase from their cost of living adjustment (COLA). CEOs at the top 350 American companies received, on average, a 3.9 percent pay increase last year. But seniors and veterans? Not a dime more”.
 
FIFTH.
“That’s why a group of us in Congress have introduced the Seniours and Veterans Emergency Benefits Act (SAVE Benefits Act). This bill would give a one-time payment of $581 to those people who aren’t receiving a COLA this year—a raise equal to the 3.9 percent pay increase the top CEOs received”.
 
SIXTH.
Senator Sanders has repeated a hundred times that the United States is the only big country without free health care. That may be true but he does not say what citizens actually pay for it, he does not mention the quality of the available health service although he praises the Cuban health service. Let us see some truths about it without rhetorical tricks.
 
Texts from Internet
 
"Countries with universal health care include Austria, Belarus, Croatia, Denmark, Finland,France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom".
 
"As excited as American liberals and proponents of expanding access to health care might be about the Supreme Court's decision to largely uphold the Affordable Care Act, the U.S. still stands out from much of the developed world in state efforts to make medical care available to the public. If universal health care in the U.S. is your goal, then today was a big step forward, but maybe also a reminder of how far behind America still lags".
 
"The above map shows, in green, countries that administer some sort of universal health care plan. Most are through compulsory but government-subsidized public insurance plans, such as the UK's National Health Service. Some countries that have socialized and ostensibly universal health care systems but do not actually apply them universally, for example in poverty- and corruption-rife states in Africa or Latin America, are not counted."
 
"What's astonishing is how cleanly the green and grey separate the developed nations from the developing, almost categorically. Nearly the entire developed world is colored, from Europe to the Asian powerhouses to South America's southern cone to the Anglophone states of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The only developed outliers are a few still-troubled Balkan states, the Soviet-style autocracy of Belarus, and the U.S. of A., the richest nation in the world."
 
"The handful of developing countries that provide universal access to health care include oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Oman, Latin success story Costa Rica, Kyrgyzstan, and, famously, Cuba, among a few others. A number of countries have attempted universal health care but failed, such as South Africa, which maintains a notoriously inefficient and troubled public plan to complement the private plans popular among middle- and upper-class citizens.

None of this is to downplay the importance of today's Supreme Court ruling for supporters of the U.S. effort to expand health care coverage, nor to argue that U.S. health care is equivalent to that in, say, Egypt or Belarus. It's precisely because the quality of U.S. health care is so high that makes this map interesting."
 
"That brings us to another way that America is a big outlier on health care. The grey countries on this map tend to spend significantly less per capita on health care than do the green countries -- except for the U.S., where the government spends way more on health care per person than do most countries with free, universal health care. This is also true of health care costs as a share of national GDP -- in other words, how much of a country's money goes into health care".
 
Let's get our numbers right.

"The overall level of health spending in the United States is so high that public (i.e. government) spending on health per capita is still greater than in all other OECD [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development] countries, except Norway and the Netherlands," according to a recent OECD report, which covers most of the developed world."

"Whether or not that will change with President Obama's health care reform now Supreme Court-approved, access to health care will remain yet another way in which the U.S. stands out from the rest of the developed world".

What we need is to advance what we have already obtained, to improved what we have already conquered. I believe that Senator Sanders will not want an armed revolution to impose the promises he is always repeating in his campaign.

On the other hand, Mrs. Clinton has to mention that important people in power and people who have had power have amassed so much experience and knowledge that even the very rich want to hear what they can say. If I get two hundred thousand dollars for a speech, it is because Goldman Sachs wants to hear what I have to say, they want to weigh my experience and what I know about the world and U.S. foreign policy. Nobody will pay anything to hear somebody without much experience and find out what a person thinks or can do if the person is always repeating the same things in public.