With $900 billion you could give every American almost $3,000. If you gave people a choice I bet the vast majority - 82% favor cash relief - would prefer that plan. Why care more for institutions than the people?
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Because they鈥檙e institutionalists, Andrew. Sharing power with the people never was and never is their plan. Get it...?
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I sort of think it鈥檚 the opposite. Sometimes it鈥檚 a lack of blunt talk, not a lack of nuance, that鈥檚 the problem. It鈥檚 great that some trees have stayed healthy but the forest is still poisoned.
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The big problem with blunt is that they're often misinformed about the basics because they're so emotionally-driven -- and is a big turnoff to moderates out there. Moderates need more gusto, progressives need better policy ideas. They're not mutually exclusive.
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Replying to @ryangtanaka @ShaelRiley @AndrewYang
I think progressives have a wide range of better policy ideas! M4A, free college, cancelling loan debt, green new deal, fair taxation, reforming police, money out of politics, ending voter suppression, economic & criminal & racial justice. No lack of policy ideas there.

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Replying to @marwilliamson @ShaelRiley @AndrewYang
One example -- cancelling student loan debt sounds great in theory, but what about the 70% of people who never went to college? Too bad for you peons, I guess? Progs are blissfully unaware of how they come across sometimes. It's not healthy to talk to others in that way.
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What? People who didn鈥檛 go to college have no college loan debt! But 45 million do. I have no college loan debt but that doesn鈥檛 mean I can鈥檛 have empathy for those who do, or see the drag on the economy of that trillion and a half dollar debt
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