Basically, none of us have shit unless your goals are slowly making all but a minority of rich people's lives worse.
You really have no idea. We aren't getting shit. Things will continue to get worse. We have no impact on this.
Because none of the important Democrats in office want to do it. It doesn't matter how savvy you are or how you politick. There are no levers of graft to be pulled that won't be overcome by lobbyists, because the people don't really matter that much in this system. Your constituents being anger can be dissipated into culture wars or they will just fall into disinterest.
As righteous as it would be to see Manchin and Sinema get publicly shat on, yelling at the hostage takers usually isn't an effective strategy for releasing hostages.
She has been on that train. They were all secretly undercutting the little leverage progressives may have had.
Bully pulpit. Do you?
Personal? Stop. You act like this whole thing is black and white. That either Pelosi is 100% a progressive or she is 100% undercutting. She is SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE. Not some random congress woman. She has to worry about the moderates, the progressives, the independents equally for 2022. AND she has to worry about Biden.
Yea, progressives need to hold out for more significant wording/agreements that she's on board.
Is "actual understanding of a political process" what caused Biden to kneel for the parliamentarian? How did being "diplomatic" in that situation work out for us?
You either have healthcare or you don't.
the thing is though, what you are seeing is going to be a popular opinion going in to midterms whether it is justified or not. People are going to remember what could have been, and not care as much about what is now, especially if what got cut would have helped them out directly like paid leave.
I really don't feel like it has much to do with Manchin being vain, he's doing things that are in his own interest and the people like him. He's protecting his own. He's big money and coal. I think Manchin knows he's finished but he's going to make sure his wealthy friends and family keep on being well off.
