I agree but my point is it’s odd to see progressives on this forum doing that exact messaging work for republicans.
The message could be,
We passed the largest ever stimulus bill with the greatest injection of progressive funding since the new deal. In it are huge funding increases for nearly every progressive social cause from child care to food stamps. It also contains huge amounts of funding for your cities and states, which provide most of the social services you rely on. This package will help hundreds of millions of Americans and not a single republican voted for it.
There isn’t anyone here to message to or I would agree with you. Because of that we can be honest. I certainly am not getting on social media and blasting Dems for this for the reasons you say.
I agree but I suspect this is due to the fatal flaw in Biden’s idea of bipartisanship as compromise. It’s natural for him to “give a little” as part of how he sees politics working. This is where Riverman and witchita are right in the WAAF mindset.
Not really impressed by the idea that this is some groundbreaking progressive achievement. It’s a once in a lifetime pandemic event that requires government intervention to solve. Every month I am getting my food from people who are working for peanuts while being exposed to a deadly disease. This bill is late and insufficient to protect working folks. Looking at raw numbers and saying wow! So progressive! is pretty dishonest
At some point, you have to admit that even the best possible leadership probably won’t get Sinema and Manchin to budge unless they kidnap family members and hold them hostage.
TBH if AOC-in-disguise was promoting decisions this stupid I think we’d be even more WAAF than we already are. There aren’t many bright spots within our national politics, please don’t take AOC from us!
There’s a reasonable POV that something has to be more anti-capitalist and anti-corporate to be progressive. There are those who argue that the New Deal was insufficiently progressive.
Narrative matters more than policy. Is the Overton window shifting to make anti-capitalist narratives more acceptable within the political discourse? If so, is it shifting enough?
By the time they get done negotiating with themselves it will be smaller than the GOP compromise bill and include an across the board corporate tax cut and estate tax repeal.
Plus people are pissed because how long this is taking and dragging it out more is only going to make them super pissed at the people dragging it out. My social media is filled with struggling people pissed this bill is taking so long.
Not to mention everyone blames Biden. I mean fuck Biden but it’s sad that so many " educated " liberals still don’t understand how important congress is.
Republicans are idiots but they’re WAY better at understanding how important congress, judges, and local government are. I think thats down to their media telling them how evil/bad liberal judges/politicians are while corporate media is like both sides ok just different.
Under current law, the power to appoint McConnell’s replacement falls to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. But new legislation McConnell is pushing in the Kentucky General Assembly would strip the governor of that power and put it into the hands of the state GOP.
That would just be a damn shame if Mitch gets dragged along with his wife and is then replaced by a democrat. Don’t think there’s any chance of Mitch finishing his term early though and this seems like more of an opportunity to hand-select someone when he’s on his way out the door. The fact that he is thinking about going out the door is at least good news!
