"Liberals try to show their concern for the poor by raising the level of minimum wage laws. Yet they show no interest in hard evidence that minimum wage laws create disastrous levels of unemployment among young blacks in this country." -Thomas Sowell

You aren’t acknowledging the current Senate dynamic

They're elected, and you're not.

ok so first u need to familiarize urself with the concept of the "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie"...

One word: neoliberalism.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows

American Left is weak and endemic from a 100 years of losing to capitalists for a variety of reasons. The Left thinks if they play along corporatists will throw them a few crumbs. The Left doesn't know how to play hardball politics even if tactics necessitate violence and deaths.

I suspect people generally have a hard time explaining things to you.

I don't know, you could ask @RepJayapal if there's nothing progressive in that bill, or you could just keep being shitty and divisive. Everybody just got a MAJOR WIN. Take the win, Marianne, and build on it.

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