Michael Moore won't be remembered for his movies *

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31. The myth that the candidate with the most money, as Romney did, has to win. Everything's about money.

Also said only way Democrats could win in 2020 would be by running a "beloved celebrity" like Oprah or Tom Hanks and not a politician.

He was wrong about why Midwestern whites voted for Trump, believed the myth of economic anxiety and blamed Democrats. His documentary "Roger & Me" was released in 1989. Manufacturing jobs began disappearing in the '70s and by the '80s was terrible. But Moore and his types blame Bill Clinton and NAFTA and that every trade deal is bad (TPP was a diabolical Obama plot to screw American workers). He knows it isn't true.

Also these types keep saying, Gee whiz, why can't America have universal health care. Medicare for All as a purity test is destructive.

President Obama:

"... the need to replace private insurance and for-profit health care with a single-payer system like Canada's was an article of faith. Had we been starting from scratch I would have agreed with them; the evidence from other countries showed that a single, national system -- basically Medicare for All -- was a cost-effective way to deliver quality healthcare. But neither Massachusetts nor the United States was starting from scratch. Teddy [Kennedy, who spent his career fighting for universal health care as a human right], who despite his reputation as a wide-eyed liberal was ever practical, understood that trying to dismantle the existing system and replace it with an entirely new one would be not only a political nonstarter but hugely disruptive economically.

" 'What is it about sixty votes these folks don't understand?' I groused to my staff. 'Should I tell the thirty million people who can't get covered that they're going to have to wait another ten years because we can't get them a public option?' ... It also ignored the fact that all the great social welfare advances in American history, including Social Security and Medicare, had started off incomplete and had been built upon gradually, over time."