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[–] 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Congress wouldn’t let him. The President doesn’t write the laws and can only ask Congress to do so.

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  • [+] 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Progressives would need to down ballot vote for that to happen. Would also need to support and fund progressive candidates.

    Progressives currently can't even do the bare minimum (actually voting), in large enough numbers to matter.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Progressives currently can't even do the bare minimum (actually voting), in large enough numbers to matter.

    Of course not!

    They're doing something far more critical and effective!

    They're withholding votes based on purity testing and otherwise being manipulated into nullifying themselves by online manipulation by the right.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Technically you need 51 or 50 + VP tiebreaker unless a Republican filibusters then you need 60.

    You can change senate rules if you have a comfortable majority but I'm pretty sure they can filibuster that, too, and it might backfire like removing the filibuster for SCOTUS and cabinet picks has.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yes and, they also needed to break a filibuster by the Republicans, which took 60 votes in the Senate, despite severe illness and Republican shenanigans. It was a huge lift to get what we got.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    He never seriously fought for universal healthcare. He stopped advocating for it before he even started fighting. As soon as he got a "reality check", not a word of support for universal healthcare was ever uttered by him to the best of my knowledge. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, though.

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