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You would think by now, whenever former President Barack Obama speaks into a microphone, few people would bother to listen. 

16 years ago, the mantra promised by the 44th president was if you liked your doctor, you could keep your doctor. If you liked your plan, you could keep your plan. Nevertheless, we spent trillions on a new healthcare system in America to deliver on his twin campaign promises of expanded access and affordability. 

On October 8, over a decade-and-a-half later, Obama released a video endorsement of Troy Jackson for Senate in Maine. Jackson’s single message is simple. No, you can’t keep your doctor or your plan. You’re going onto government-run healthcare if he and other DSA-backed Democrat candidates nationwide get elected. 

And last Saturday in Detroit, standing next to Abdul El-Sayed, the most radical candidate for a Constitutional office in the country’s history, Obama asked this rhetorical question. 

Ever since I first moved to Los Angeles, going through LAX meant seeing ads for a ‘People Mover’; a monorail moving passengers back and forth between airport terminals the way high-end cities like Minneapolis, Denver and Orlando do. As LAX became an unusable dumpster fire where you have to take a shuttle to get to a shuttle to get to an Uber to wait in a parking lot, the ads for a ‘People Mover’ kept popping up. The ads made it sound like it was some great achievement rather than something so basic that Disneyland and Mexico had figured it out.