17th February 2020, 8:07 AM
Quote:It'd go like any of his other policy proposals over the years have, nowhere; there's a reason why Bernie doesn't get much legislation passed.
There are so many Democratic legislators who boast about all the bills they've written and sponsored, and nobody's asking them 'so why does everything suck and everything is getting worse anyway?'
This is not an era of political compromise and it will not be until we depolarize. And since one side is apocalyptic and absolutely unyielding, depolarization will not happen until that side is politically neutralized. 50 years of bending over backwards to accommodate Republicans while putting on a public show of opposition is obviously not getting us any closer to that goal.
Establishment Democrats are not, and have never been, effective and inspiring leaders, so it is in everyone's best interest that they transition to effective and inspiring followers. You can abhor everything Republicans stand for, but you can't deny that they are better at the game of politics. They control most of government from a minority position, and while some of that has been the result of underhanded and unethical means, a lot of it is also because they place the highest value on turning out the vote and they know how to effectively get that done. Democratic voters blame other Democratic voters for not buying the shit the party keeps selling. Republican voters rightly blamed their politicians for the shit they kept being sold, looked for an alternative, and control almost everything today as a result.
Looking back at how our dynamic used to be in discussions of politics, one of life's tiny and hilarious ironies is that ABF turned out to be the most staunchly conservative of us all.
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