There are several related to health care including lowering the price of Insulin to 35 bucks per month, making premiums more affordable for the Affordable Health Care programs and I'm pretty sure Medicaid was expanded, at least temporarily. While SCOTUS shot down Biden's attempt to forgive most student loans, Biden did accomplish getting a lot of student loans forgiven or lowered for those with lower income.
Sigh. I do understand that your generation and the ones younger are ready for a revolution. And you sound like you are not opposed to a violent revolution, if that's what it takes, although we both prefer non-violence.
Of this list, the only thing I see on it that is actually a progressive cause is the forgiveness of student loan debt, which Biden mostly failed to accomplish despite the grandiose claims both his allies and his detractors make about the matter. Preserving the ACA and keeping all significant medical decisions in the hands of fully private insurance companies is a centrist Democrat/neoliberal cause, not a progressive cause. We want a modern healthcare system, available to all citizens, as the entire rest of the developed world enjoys.
We have a modern healthcare system. In many respects it is better and more modern than the NHS of Britain.
This is a pretty good summary of the Centrist Democrat position on these issues. But we were discussing Biden's struggle to control his progressive wing, not what liberals think progressives ought to believe. Obviously, if all the progressives just stopped being progressives, that would solve the problem, but that is not a realistic hope.
No, I think you have it wrong: Biden seems to make no move to co trim the progressives. He or rather, they since Congress legislated, struggle to pass the more progressive agenda items many/most of which I want to see as well.
Yeah, that's been Biden's only campaign slogan or promise this whole time. How's that working out for him right now? Any marketing person could tell you, you need more than "It's not Pepsi" to sell someone a Coke.
Part of the reason the right has been so emboldened is because the left is perceived, and rightly so, as a bunch of weak, pacifist do nothings unwilling to defend themselves.
Realistically speaking, what do you see as our choices?
"You have no choice" is also a pretty uninspiring campaign slogan.
Civil disobedience. Pick up where we left off. The Court is lost beyond hope, the Senate probably will be for at least two years, but the president still needs his various executive agencies to enact his "policies"/Tweets. We government workers can just refuse to follow any of his Tweets. The common citizen can refuse to look the other ways when the arrests and warrantless raids resume. All of us can refuse to surrender the vote, or our right to a jury. This worked somewhat during his first term, and it will be our only real weapon remaining in his second. There is little left in our corner.
I’m certain that you do very much want…Trump to lose.
No. They should have played hardball long ago. Trying to do it now is a disaster. I have said as much multiple times in this thread alone.
If we can get a majority House and expand it in the Senate and re-elect Biden, we can expand the Supreme Court.
The Democrats are no more likely to do that than they are to enact universal healthcare or grant statehood to Puerto Rico.
It is a summary of reality when it comes to student loan forgiveness and our healthcare system. I doubt that progressives are supposed to be delusional. At least, I hope they are not.
