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Yes. But why don’t we have universal healthcare or student loan forgiveness? Could there be another party blocking everything?

Dem: here is a comprehensive student loan forgiveness plan. Vote to help your constituents.

Reps: No.

Leftists:why are the parties the same, LIBERAL?

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Biden didn’t campaign on universal healthcare. Most of the Democrats didn’t, it’s why Bernie got popular off that. Same with student loan forgiveness until Bernie started mentioning it. They just don’t care about it as much as they say they do.

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But why don’t we have universal healthcare or student loan forgiveness?

If you think that’s only because of Republicans I have some terrible news for you.

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I don’t think that. I do think one party has tried or has members that have tried.

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I agree, the Dems have members that advocate for universal healthcare but the party in its entirely absolutely does not.

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You’re right.

It’s so hard.

They should just… keep making excuses instead of working harder.

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Why should they work harder? Every four years they drum up votes by saying they’re not as bad as the Other Guy, and about half the time it works. A large portion, maybe even a majority, of their voters come out of the woodwork around election time to call anyone dissatisfied with the Democratic party a Russian troll or worse, then disappear for the next four years until the next Other Guy needs to be defeated.

The system we have only has one way for the public to express their opinions of politicians: their vote. A vote for a politician, regardless if it’s just a vote against the Other Guy, is taken as approval of that politician and their party. Now we’re stuck between a rock and a hard place of our own making. Fascism on the one hand, fascism delayed by a maximum of four years on the other.

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Who said they shouldn’t work harder? The point is, one party is putting effort and the other is obstructing everything.

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*Pretending to put forth effort, you mean.

The president has the power to keep Congress at work for as long as he wants, provided he considers the issue critical enough. Take your pick of critical issues, be it student loan debt, or poverty, or 2/3 of the states about to take women’s bodily autonomy away, or cops becoming a legalized domestic army of oppression. etc. etc. etc.

The Democrats pretend to care and do nothing but offer empty excuses.

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