We need to expand Medicare, social security, and provide new programs to make life easier for young families. We need better public schools for our students, free community college and trade programs, and a slew of new workplace rights.
In other words, we need candidates that can marry working-class populism with progressive economic policies in a way that can reach deep into Trump-country and win over enough independents to deliver a commanding majority in 2028.
This is incredibly fucking stupid, and deeply toxic.
Putting money into peoples pockets is literally doing not just something, but the actual thing.
See: COVID payments, Child Tax Credit, Social security.
And on the other side see: 2008/9 bank bailouts, the foreclosure crisis, and on and on…
Fucking miss me with this heritage fucking society fucking bootstraps bullshit. If we want people out of poverty, make direct payments to poor people so they donʻt have to live in poverty. Its simple as.
This neoliberalism/ neoconservatism needs to be kicked to the curb.
You can keep downvoting me, but you know I’m right. What we need is systemic overhaul and that includes effective support systems. I’m not a neoliberal, I’m more socialist than you are likely. I’m saying you don’t fix this with a bandaid. We need reform that prioritizes the working class and a promise of stability. We need medicaid for all because it decouples healthcare from work and creates stability for people. We need community housing and public options that put pressure on rent seekers to control costs and create circumstances where people can settle for 20 years without having to worry if they’re going to be homeless next month for reasons completely outside their control. We need support for community institutions; libraries, youth groups, and social spaces. We need controls on worker exploitation and wage theft, and limits on time-abuse to give people the opportunity to USE those public institutions, and consequences with teeth for corruption.
And yes, direct support to those who need it is going to be a part of it, but it’s not a cure-all.
No, you are NOT fucking right and you aren’t addressing my principal point. UBI or any other thing that outs money into people’s hands right now isn’t just a solution for right now, it’s also fundemental to those issues down the line.
It’s also fundemental to Democrats building a bigger majority in 2028, in that they need to do something right now to make a palpable, sensible, difference in people’s lives they can feel right now
You can demand it, it’s not going to happen. Period. You want UBI in 2 years? You’ll be lucky to see it in 20. You might get a 1 time check. If that’s your bar, you’re going to have president Rubio in 2028, because Jesus could walk into congress and bitch slap every republican and it still wouldn’t achieve that.
And you can make the claim that we should put off things that would actually improve peoples lives, for years.
One path takes Dʻs to a W in 2028. The other doesnt.
Like fucking clockwork, and in real time, Jamaal Bowman makes my point for me:
For a couple hundred dollars a MONTH we cut child poverty in HALF. And we could have done that FOREVER, if Biden wouldnt have worked to kill their own bill, in favor of more technocratic solutions like you are arguing for. So nah. No.
Would it help? Absolutely. It will not happen. If you are hanging your hopes on it by next election, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
It.👏 Will.👏 Not.👏 Happen.👏
It cannot be done from the position we are in. Half the Democrats would vote it down and the Republicans want to put us in chains, you’re not going to get any help there. I can’t stop you from dying on that hill, but we need ammo, not moonshots. We need anchors that we can hang on the Republicans necks to show Dems are passing bills and Rs are going to do nothing but veto everything. If you’re not in it for the long haul, then walk away now, because this isn’t going to go anywhere in 2 years.
You are like, sociopathic in not understanding THAT IT ALREADY FUCKING HAPPENED ONCE YOU DUNCE!!
We did this during covid. We had a bill on the table to make it permanent. They werent only possible WE ALREADY FUCKING DID IT!!
👏 YOU.👏 DO NOT.👏 KNOW.👏 WHAT.👏 THE.👏 FUCK.👏 YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.👏
Ok then. Go hard, I wish you luck. Don’t call me when the veto comes down and you can’t get a republican to lift a finger.
Does anyone ever call you?
Twatwaffle.
They’re not going to make regular payments, they’re going to try a one time check and pretend that fixes things. A real consistent program to support young people isn’t even on the table and you know that.