When I talk about a progressive policy the president ignored or abandoned, someone always jumps in to say, “But he didn’t have the votes to pass it! You have to have Congress!”🧵

Aug 5, 2023 · 3:27 PM UTC

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True in some cases (Build Back Better)… but let’s be clear: Manchin and Sinema did not make Biden approve the Willow project, or grant more oil drilling permits than even Trump did. The parliamentarian had no actual political power to stop Biden from raising the minimum wage across the board - he chose to let her.
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The president could introduce a Medicare4All bill, use marching rights to lower certain drug prices and unilaterally close some of those 750 military installations around the world * if he wanted to.*
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As long as we’re okay with accepting less, we’re going to keep getting less. From universal healthcare to tuition-free college & tech school to a guaranteed living wage, those things should be for us - as for the citizens of every other advanced democracy - the absolute minimum we are willing to accept from our government.
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If we vote the same we’ll just get the same. The power is in our hands.
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Let's beat joe
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Progressivism is punishment of the able to appease the needy.
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Seriously, the only really good thing about Biden is he’s not trump. His “never been more optimistic about the future of the country “ comment couldn’t be more divorced from reality.
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You will not stand up to the system especially as a Democrat.
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The reality is that progressive policies are not popular beyond the ~10-15% of the population that are actually progressives. Republicans and most independents are very much against them. Even Dem reps know this despite the garbage they spew to the media and on social media.
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Until Government and the candidates hoping to represent the people stare the ideologies taking over our nation in the face and start telling the truth, none of the rest of this matters. Once you convince a Nation that gender is real and men can be women all bets are off.