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.
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.
Oh, clever, you pick up that name-calling thing from Trump? You want a reason to hand things over to Republicans then so you can die on a cross of your own making, go for it. Throw your temper tantrum because the world doesn’t work like you think it does. Apparently internment camps and masked thugs dragging people into white vans wasn’t enough fascism for you to get serious. Go off fam. You charge that brick wall and beat yourself to death on it.