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The single most outrageous statement Trump made during his political tenure: "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated."
Nobody? It's pretty much a litmus test of whether a citizen or resident of America is living in the real world with their eyes open. If you don't know that health care is one of America's most polarized, partisan, Byzantine and intractable problems, the next question in line to bracket the other person's world-view competence: "okay, do you know water is wet?" And if you get a "yes" answer you can say, "great! we're already halfway there." Then you can ask: do you think Jared Kushner can solve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict over coffee tomorrow afternoon? If the answer is "yes" again, you might be halfway there, but you've still got a long road ahead.
What makes American healthcare "so complicated" is that many people are quick to support ideological option (A) or (B), but then when any specific proposal trickles into view, seven people out of ten go ape shit over their favoured ox being gored (such as watching your favourite Gore being doxed). Ideological majority often fails, and fails miserably, to translate into majorism backing any specific, concrete proposal.
As I'm not picking on Trump in particular, let's also consider the Firdos Square statue destruction. The "majority" of Americans supported the Iraq invasion under the (careless) assumption that toppling the statue of Saddam Hussein would "end the conflict" (at least symbolically). What we saw instead was a year of Bush and other Bush administration officials running around saying "I did not have insurgency with those Arabs", modelled to a T on Bill Clinton's less-than-finest hour ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman.")
As it stands, we've used the word "majority" in this lead three times in short succession, and nowhere have we made it clear that this is quite possibly yet another majorism of wishful thinking (spanning all citations provided), entirely congruent with: Brexit, ending Obamacare, and the toppling of the Hussein administration in Iraq.
What you can legitimately assert from the polls cited is that the majority of people polling are not rejecting the two-state solution out of hand, though the devil is surely in the details, should a concrete proposal be tabled from on high.
I am not the man of one book, or one Wikipedia page, or one geopolitical conflict. I have many other Wikipedia pages yet to visit / And miles to go before I sleep. On fresh news of Sheldon Adelson's passing, I've merely stopped by long enough to carve my two cents into the tree bark (with loud and sloppy axe strokes) for what it's worth.
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