[Farm worker, looking tired] We should improve society somewhat
[smug grinning dude in a well] You’re alienating moderates This is the reason why we can’t have leftist unity I am very smart
[Farm worker, looking tired] We should improve society somewhat
[smug grinning dude in a well] You’re alienating moderates This is the reason why we can’t have leftist unity I am very smart
Off the top of my head, from someone not even in the US, there were the student loan forgiveness programs, or the insulin price limit.
Both are arguably remedies for symptoms, and the right is far more efficient in undoing anything good. But pretending the liberals didn’t do anything in the past 10 years is disingenuous.
And I’m not going to deny they tried to do something good. But the student loan forgiveness program alone:
And the insulin price limit is good, but it was done with the stroke of a pen. Trump removed it with a stroke of a pen. If something that light can be done or taken away with a stroke, what more can be done? Where is the limit? Could Biden just nationalize the insulin production companies?
Small wins are important, but when I know of someone who is broke and getting insulin was literally a life or death situaion, sometimes selling small mementos and items to be able to just live without keeling over, the cap could have been 0.99 cents, or zero.
Incrementalism is a lofty goal when citizens are paycheck to paycheck, can barely afford a random expense, have nothing in savings, food and rent prices are going up, etc. etc. It makes people willing to ignore history and consider listening to a conman who enabling the worst of humanity.
When people are stressed and unsure what to do, they’ll be desperate. Sometimes its robbing a convenience store, sometimes its stealing from big retailers, sometimes its sometimes its voting for a fascist.