This is great. Ro Khanna seems like a bit of an idealist, which I like in a politician, especially one that introduces bills that can genuinely help people, and gives a good interview on an episode on the 5-4 podcast about fixing the supreme Court.
I don’t have any medical debt at the moment, and I think there are probably some better long-term things we could spend our extremely valuable and limited political capital on, so naturally I strongly support this because I’m not a fucking inhuman monster.
Okay, but just like student debt, it doesn’t fix the actual problem. Bailing water out of a ship doesn’t do much compared to fixing the fucking hole in the hull.
How is it going with the project of fixing the debt?
Btw those wood ships took on water all the time and had to run pumps every day. I find it amusing that a solution that worked for multiple hundreds of years thousands of times a day is used as an analogy for something not working. Hey did you know that human kidney rarely works pass the 110 years of operation mark?
A congresspersons job is to advance bills consistent with their platform, and the will of their constituents. talking about favoring some hypothetical bill is grandstanding. Actually building the thing and bringing it forward is the real deal.
Now, some bills have little to no chance of passing. This is one of those. But Bernie can’t control who he sits next to.
Bernie doesn’t do a ton of grandstanding. He’s also one of the only senators who introduces bills that get bipartisan support sometimes. I really don’t think he’s introducing a bill he means to go nowhere
Why do you think it doesn’t stand a chance of passing? Not because people don’t like the idea, but because people accurately believe that big medical and big banks have too much political power.
I love how, whenever centrists kill some progressive policy, centrists are like “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” but let a progressive suggest actual incremental change toward something centrists don’t want to do, and suddenly centrists want immediate perfection.
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